[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.465,1.466
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Mon Oct 27 01:27:37 CET 2003
Torinthiel writes:
> 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.
What wording would you suggest?
Diego
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