[MPlayer-users] Re: [BUG] Endpos time mistakenly taken as another filename

[amadeo]

 <mail <at> kraymer.de> writes:

> 
> >> When using the -endpos option to specify a limit to play/encode,
> >> mplayer/mencoder thinks the endpos argument is another file
> >> and after playing/encoding the specified amount of time, it
> >> exits with the following message:
> 
> Oops, I didn't notice you only complained about the error message. Forget
> my post then..

It's not only the error message. When I use endpos with mencoder, the endcoding
abruptly stops without the usual summary (in case of x264) and I assume that the
output file is not complete (e.g. missing header or tailer or similar).