[MPlayer-users] -dumpvideo: does it create raw video stream?

[Nico Sabbi]

Enzo wrote:

>Dear friends,
>
>I have a large x264 encoded avifile created by MEncoder
>dev-SVN-r21398-3.4.4 that I'd like to convert to Matroska. To do this,
>the suggested procedure is:
>
>1) convert the avi to raw with avi2raw
>2) use mp4box or a similar tool to wrap the raw stream into mp4
>3) feed the resulting mp4 into a Matroska merger
>
>Problem is that avi2raw failed, producing an incomplete video stream. So
>I decided to use mplayer with -dumpvideo, which indeed produced a
>complete video stream. Unfortunately both mp4box and mp3creator failed
>to recognize the video stream dumped by mplayer. Is there any
>explanation for this? Is the -dumpvideo'ed stream not fully compliant to
>the raw avi specifications? Any assistanc will be greatly appreciated --
>thank you very much.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Enzo
>  
>
yes, for some idiot reason -dumpvideo applied to avi, asf and mov
dumps 4 bytes (len) before every video packet.
It should really be removed