[MEncoder-users] mencoder //tv capture avi index problem

[The Wanderer]

On 06/25/2011 04:03 PM, ted morris wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
> wrote:
> 
>> ted morris <ted.morris <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I'm using mencoder to capture live  /dev/video[x] streams tv://
>>> with v4l2 and saving them as ffmpeg mpeg4, single pass files, no
>>> audio.
>>> 
>>> They playback fine with the media player in Debian linux, and VLC
>>> in windows ok.
>>> 
>>> But I want to use VirtualDub and with any version I try I get
>>> this warjning:
>> 
>> How do you stop mencoder? The index is written if the encode was
>> cleanly finished.
> 
> Hi Carl -- Well , I thought about that but mencoder terminates on its
> own.

If you play the encoded file with MPlayer, and try to seek, what
happens? Does it "just work", or does MPlayer complain about a lack of
an index, or what?

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