[MPlayer-users] Re: Mencoded AVIs are not playable......SOLVED!

[guardian at skip.cz]

Corey wrote:

> You say "black picture area" here and in your first mail, and I noticed
> your command lines don't involve any cropping. You really should crop
> out the _entire_ black bands, as well as any fuzziness, and then scale
> appropriately to maintain aspect ratio and make both dimensions a
> multiple of 16. You'll get much better quality that way.
> -vf crop=width:height:xposition:yposition,scale=width:height
> Better yet, just read DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt
> I can't answer the rest of your problems, though.

Yes yes, you said it! Cropping solved this, thankyou again!

Rich wrote:
> Recent versions of WMP have a horrible bug whereby they try to detect
> MP3 files before AVI files, and thus if it finds 2 mp3 headers in the
> first 64k (iirc) of the file, it assumes you have an mp3 file rather
> than an avi! :(( Normally this won't happen, since video frames are
> usually big, but it's much more likely if there's a long period of
> solid black at the beginning of your movie. Perhaps mencoder should
> work around this bug, but IMO it would be stupid since it would waste
> space... MS needs to fix their crap. WMP can't play certain avi files
> made by older windows software either...

Hhhmmmm....strange. I am testing my samples under (M$) WMP, MicroDVDplayer 
and other players, miscellaneous MP3 codecs and filters - and Xvid videos 
with VBR and AC3 are still unplayable. Never mind. Xvid videos seems to 
be ever playable with CBR MP3 audio......Its temporarily solution, but 
enough. Thanks to all, Guardian.