[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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