[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: -of mpeg WOW thanks for the patch

[darkshadow at shaw.ca]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:20:49 +0300
"Andriy N. Gritsenko" <andrej at lucky.net> wrote:

>     Hi, MAL!
> 
> Sometime (on Thursday, September 25 at 12:42) I've received something...
> >Just a quickie...
> >
> >Can someone explain why when I do:
> >
> >mencoder -of mpeg -ovc copy -oac copy input.mpg -o output.mpg
> >
> >where input.mpg is MPEG2 video/audio at SVCD spec, does it state:
> >
> >"Writing AVI header..."
> >"Writing AVI index..."
> >and:
> >"Fixing AVI header..."
> >
> >Surely if i'm wanting an MPEG output, (-of mpeg), it should get an MPEG 
> >header?
> 
>     It comes from help_mp-*.h so I cannot do anything with it.
> 
> >As it stands, not only can I not play the file in a windows player, (the 
> >original plays fine), but I also lose the audio stream, (even mplayer 
> >reports no audio stream).
> [.......]
> 
>     Silly me... I didn't find it earlier but it was my bug. Sorry. Patch
> is attached so you could fix it right now. It must work fine.
> 
>     With best wishes.
>     Andriy.


All that is needed now is for mencoder to actually listen to the vrc_maxrate= then my capture will be DVD compliant and I can say good bye to Windows forever.