[MPlayer-dev-eng] divx 5.0.2 support ?

Alex Shnitman alexsh at hectic.net
Sun Jun 2 15:38:14 CEST 2002


On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:19, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > I'm playing movies I encoded with DivX 5.02 just fine with mplayer. The
> > only problem is that seeking quite often creates an image that's kind of
> > a super-imposition of the original image (the point from which we seek)
> > and the motion vectors at the new point. It's kind of hard to explain,
> > but in other words, until the next keyframe the image is screwed.
> > 
> > I thought it has something to do with B-frames, which are new in DivX 5
> > so may not be supported by libavcodec very well. Is that the situation,
> > or should I file a proper bugreport?
> 
> Sounds like it's most likely a bug in Divx5 that causes non-keyframes
> to be marked as keyframes, perhaps in the avi index. Have you tried
> with -forceidx? Or rebuilding the file with mencoder -oac,-ovc copy?

Seeking on that file works correctly in Windows Media Player; is that
any indication?


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