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

[Torinthiel]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:27:37AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Torinthiel writes:
> What wording would you suggest?
How about this?
> 
> Diego
Torinthiel

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--- mplayer.1	27 Oct 2003 01:25:52 -0000	1.472
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@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@
 It will still be used for IPv4 connections.
 .TP
 .B \-loadidx <filename>
-The file name from which to read the video INDEX data.
+The file name from which to read the video INDEX data, as saved by \-saveidx.
 MPlayer will read the index from filename and use this data for seeking.
 This data will override any index data contained in the AVI itself.
 Further, MPlayer won't prevent you from loading an index file generated
@@ -892,9 +892,13 @@
 .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.
-Although you can use MEncoder to fix files without indexes, MPlayer
-does not support seeking in AVI files bigger than 2GB.
+argument filename.
+Currently this only works with AVI files.
+Although you can use MEncoder to fix files without indexes, it is impossible
+to store index to a large file (>2GB) in an AVI file.
+It is however possible to store the index in a separate file and use it later
+with \-loadidx, which is faster than rebuilding the index (with \-idx or
+\-forceidx) each time the movie is opened.
 (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.
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