[MPlayer-users] Mencoder doesn't create Index

Kichigai Mentat kichigai at comcast.net
Fri Jan 14 21:58:43 CET 2005


OK, I think it would be easier to just use the simple trick of avisplit.

It's a part of the avifile library and can split the AVI file into 
multiple parts.

---OR---

We can go the all-MPlayer route. Split the file into multiple parts 
however, then run:
mplayer <Input File Name> -o <Output file Name> -oac copy -ovc copy
and voilá! You have a file with a built-in index! This is actually 
quite useful with files with busted indexes since it really doesn't 
require recompression.

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-- Mario Cuomo
On Jan 14, 2005, at 13.46, 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]
>  ...
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