[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer fails to play avi-file

[Svante Signell]

gabor writes:
 > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 08:34, Svante Signell wrote:
 > > Arpi writes:
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  > 
 > >  > 1. wrong maillist for such user questions
 > > 
 > > I think this is the correct list since the slowness is inherent in
 > > mplayer itself. Also I'm using the latest CVS sources in addition to
 > > released versions. Xine handles this file acceptably, why not
 > > mplayer... Please tell me how to debug/profile mplayer playing this
 > > specific file: At least I can try to find the cause of slowness using
 > > the debugger/profiler.
 > 
 > bugreports go to mplayer-users at .... it's a rule created by the mplayer
 > developers.... 
I would not call the problems a bug, is it?
 >
 > it has nothing to do with your processor speed... it's that a
 > non-interlaced avi contains first the video part then the audio ( or
 > vice versa), so when playing back first you read a bit from beginning of
 > the file, then from middle of the file, then from beginning of the file,
 > then from middle of the file etc....
 > 
 > and seeking on a cd/dvd rom is never fast compared to seeking on a
 > hardix.
 > 
 > actually why are you using non-interlaced files? can't you convert them
 > to interlaced?
 > as far as i know a simple 'mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy in.avi -o
 > out.avi' will solve your problems...
Thanks for the info, I'll try to recode it when time permits. This
specific file was created by a friend of mine (and he is using windows...)
 > 
 > bye,
 > gabor
 >