[MPlayer-users] Re: mencode -idx fails

[Michael Waters]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 20:56 -0400, Brett Jones wrote:
> I ripped and encoded a dvd a few days ago with mencode. It plays well in 
> mplayer, but for some reason no index was created during the encode so I 
> was forced to play it with the -idx option in order seek. It also fails 
> to play in media player. Today I tried to fix the index by running 
> mencode as per the docs:
> 
> mencode -idx inputfile.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o outputfile.avi
> 
> This runs with no errors and creates the output file, but the index is 
> not built within this file either.

Have you tried also -forceidx ?  Is the file < 2 G ?


Michael