[MPlayer-users] Mencoder doesn't create Index

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:46:44PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> Nick wrote:
> 
> >
> >>Are you using MPlayer 1.0pre4 or earlier?
> >>Since 1.0pre5 MPlayer has ODML support and you should not have
> >>such a problem.
> >>
> >>If you have 1.0pre5/6 then I think there is some sort of bug somewhere.
> >>
> >>And when MPlayer says:
> >> 
> >>
> >>>Cannot seek in raw AVI streams. (Index required, try with the -idx 
> >>>switch.)
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>You should try -forceidx instead.
> >>
> >>If -forceidx works, then you can use -saveidx and -loadidx too.
> >>
> >>Giacomo
> >>
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> >> 
> >>
> >
> >I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 for Windows. I tried the -forceidx 
> >switch but this still gives the "Cannot seek in raw AVI streams" output.
> >I remember while encoding movies in Linux, Mencoder outputs something 
> >like "creating new odlm index at 1024".
> >I'm going to encode Hero again and see if Mencoder gives similar 
> >output, I'll let you know if it does.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Nick
> >
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> While reencoding Hero Mencoder gave the following information:
> ...
> ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MB.35min 2606mb  A-V:0.046 [3402:448]

Try -noomdl as suggested. For files less than 4GB it could solve the problem.

I cannot help more than this.

Giacomo