[MPlayer-users] -forceidx

[gabor]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:14, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > > 
> > > forceidx won't sync a-v desync. mencoder copy will, forceidx should be use
> > d
> > > ONLY for files with BROKEN (not missing, then -idx is the right thing) ind
> > ex
> > 
> > ok, so how does a broken index look like?
> 
> like the non-broken index, but a few bits/bytes are wrong...
> 
> but if you use -forceidx, it will ignore index from input file at all,
> and reconstruct it from file contents (chunks).

ok and how can i find out that the index is broken.. problems while
playing the avi?

and could you either give the info or point me to somewhere about how
are the index and the movie related ? if i can play back a movie without
an index, then how could be reconstructing the index destructive?

> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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