[MPlayer-users] Bad behavior when getting multiple files from stdin

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:13:12AM +0200, Jesus Abizanda wrote:
> 
> When I try to do:
> 
> > cat *.avi |mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy - 
> 
> in release 0.90 it works fine, but in 1.0 just the first file is added.
> 
> Also when trying:
> 
> > cat *.avi |mplayer - 
> 
> Is that a bug?

No, what you're doing is not even intended to be possible. It's a huge
hack. The "correct" way to do it would be:

cat *.avi > big.avi

mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -forceidx big.avi -o proper.avi

Rich