[MPlayer-users] avi 20GB problems

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Dec 11 17:27:35 CET 2003


On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:03:36PM +0100, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> >It could be a bad index ... though I warn you know that it'll take
> >forever to rebuild!  {see the -idx and -forceidx}
> > 
> >
> 
> hi,
> because -noidx gives me unsynced audio I tried -forceidx. but again, 
> encoding quits prematurely, this time exploding my shell with chunk ID 
> mismatches...any ideas? Here are my encoding commands:
> 
> FPS=25.0
> VOP="scale=640:480,crop=686:500:10:40"
> BR=960
> 
> nice -n 19 mencoder_static -v -forceidx -oac mp3lame -lameopts 
> fast:preset=standard -ovc frameno -ofps $FPS -o frameno.avi GOLEM.AVI
> #and it breaks with chunk ID mismatch so it doesnt reach the next command:
> nice -n 19 mencoder_static -v -forceidx -oac copy -vop $VOP -ovc lavc 
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$BR:vhq:vqmin=2:vqmax=15:keyint=250 \
> :vmax_b_frames=0 -ofps $FPS -sws 2 -o szulkin-golem-vhsrip-forceidx.avi 
> GOLEM.AVI
> 
> raw video comes from windoze pinnacle dvtools stuff, people are using it 
> on the regular basis to rip stuff off VHS tapes... (they encode it in 
> premiere, I never tried it)
> 
> any more suggestions?


You could try encoding with -mc 0 -noskip to force mencoder not to do
any a/v "correction". If the avi file is grossly broken (timestamps
all wrong) but not missing frames, this may work.

Rich



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