[MPlayer-users] Encoding very large files

[Stephen Mollett]

On Monday 23 Dec 2002 20:30, Clemens Wächter wrote:
> I had exactly the same problem and it was discussed on this list, too. Just
> a few days ago. So  please search the mailing list archives, too.

I did that. That's where I got my ideas about catting, piping and avimerge 
(there was a thread some time back about concatenating avi files using 
cat/-forceidx and avimerge).

> The Problem is that mplayer/mencoder don't support OpenDML yet and A'rpi
> says that they are ugly hacks. So it isn't supported yet and I haven't
> found a workaround (using mencoder, that is) (seems that there are no known
> workarounds).

I've actually just got it working a few minutes ago, using a Wine hack 
suggested on the wine-users list. I got VirtualDub to produce a 6.5GB OpenDML 
AVI, which works perfectly with mencoder.

Quite frankly, we ought to stop using AVI as it's so outdated and the 
extensions are so hacky. Perhaps we should be encouraging the use of OGM 
containers or something. (Vorbis audio in mencoder would be nice, too :)

Stephen