[MPlayer-users] Bug: Mencoder + "-v 0" => no Avi index

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:39:13PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mencoder "mf://*.png" -mf fps=25 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o 
> del.avi -v 1
> 
> leads to:
> 
> [...]
> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)     0mb  A-V:0.000 [1159:0] 
> A/Vms 0/55 D/B/S 0/0/0
> uninit video: mpng
> File not found: '1'
> Failed to open 1
> Cannot open file/device.
> 
> Exiting...
> --------
> 
> So Mencoder interprets the "1" form "-v 1" as an non existing file.
> The resulting Avi does not include any index so seeking is not possible.
> 
> The manpage says that "-v 1" (or -v 0) should be OK:

No, this number is not an argument. It's the number of occurrances of
-v on the command line.

Rich