[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.465,1.466

[Torinthiel]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:16:24PM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> --- mplayer.1	22 Oct 2003 19:45:19 -0000	1.465
> +++ mplayer.1	23 Oct 2003 12:16:00 -0000	1.466
> @@ -889,6 +897,19 @@
> +.TP
> +.B \-saveidx <filename>
> +Force rebuilding of INDEX and output to a separate file specified by the
> +argument filename. Currently this only works with AVI files.
Each sentence in separate line.
> +Although you can use MEncoder to fix files without indexes, MPlayer
> +does not support seeking in AVI files bigger than 2GB.
> +(This is a limitation of the AVI format, and although there exists an
> +extension to index beyond 2GB, MPlayer doesn't yet support this extension.)
> +After the index file is created, MPlayer will begin to play the video.
> +If you want to automate index file generation (after encoding a large file
> +off a TV capture card, for example), you can specify \-frames 0 to
> +prevent MPlayer from playing the video after generating the index.
> +NOTE: this option will be obsoleted once AVI gets ODML support!
IMHO this sugessts that MPlayer cannot seek in large files. But the
whole option was to enable it - MPlayer CAN seek, but AVI cannot store
the index.
Torinthiel

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