[MPlayer-users] (no subject)

[David Chernoff]

Is there a way to pipe an "avi" file to mplayer
standard input so that the file plays to completion?
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When I use mplayer to play the file in question everything works. 

However, when I try to pipe the file to mplayer, it plays 
correctly (for a while) and then quits with End of file. 

This is a big avi file (5.7 GB) which has been "merged"
from smaller avi files.

Is it possible that this behavior has something to do with
the length of the avi file? The file resulted from merging
several smaller avi files (I used a number of different
programs including avimerge with similar results)?

Does mplayer need to seek backwards at some point in a long file?
If so can that be suppressed?

--TIA


Uncut output follows:

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---correctly playing from file: mplayer bigz.avi 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

MPlayer SVN-r35113-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing bigz.avi.
libavformat version 54.25.104 (internal)
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (1 superindexchunks).
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  []  1024x1024  24bpp  15.000 fps  377487.4 kbps (46080.0
kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: MEncoder VERSION
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Opening video filter: [flip]
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
[swscaler @ 0xf7dd20]using unscaled bgr24 -> yuv420p special converter
VO: [xv] 1024x1024 => 1024x1024 Planar YV12 
Selected video codec: [rawbgr24flip] vfm: raw (RAW BGR24)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
V:  51.9 779/779  0% 17%  0.0% 0 0 

Exiting... (Quit)


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----failing from pipe: cat bigz.avi | mplayer -
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MPlayer SVN-r35113-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
libavformat version 54.25.104 (internal)
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  []  1024x1024  24bpp  15.000 fps  67042.5 kbps (8183.9 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: MEncoder VERSION
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Opening video filter: [flip]
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
[swscaler @ 0xf7dd20]using unscaled bgr24 -> yuv420p special converter
VO: [xv] 1024x1024 => 1024x1024 Planar YV12 
Selected video codec: [rawbgr24flip] vfm: raw (RAW BGR24)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
V:  22.7 341/341  0% 17%  0.0% 0 0 


Exiting... (End of file)

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