[MEncoder-users] ODML Issues with mencoder

[James Hastings-Trew]

Heiner, Aaron J wrote:
> I am encoding some pretty large files and mencoder keeps giving me a
> message saying "Starting new odml Riff..."  It seems to happen after
> every 1 GB is encoded.  It is messing up my avi files.  I need odml for
> the files but how can I get it to only create one Riff?  To be clear, I
> created four chunks in my file and only the first chunk is playable.
> Thanks!
>   
You'll get a new riff chunk after every 1Gb in your file. If you don't 
want this, use -noodml when encoding, and this won't happen.
Alternatively, use a different container format than AVI.