[MPlayer-users] mplayer with really big avi movie

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/22/06, 陆然 <hephooey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to encode a 'dvsd' avi file with mencoder, this file is generated by
> premiere from a digital video tap, about 20 GB. And I found that mencoder can
> only encode the first few minutes. Trying to look for the answer in the
> source code, I found that the avi demux read the a dword value as the endpos
> of the movie, and the movie ended at the exact pos when playing with mplayer.
> However, I tried the file with windows media player and everything is normal,
> it can even seek in the file, while mplayer just generated a error "you
> cannot seek in raw avi file" something like that.
>
> Does this large file problem have some workaround, or it's a general problem
> of mplayer, or I just encounted a bad file?

Though I have never tried, you may want to see if you can seek on the
file if you play the file with '-forceidx' option.

I also think that there is a configure build option to compile MPlayer
with large file support. I don't remember if it's on by default
though. I never had to specifically enable it to play any file.

Guillaume

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