[MPlayer-users] Two suggestions

[gabor farkas]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:45:19AM +0200, Zdik Kudrle wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> My two stupid suggestions:
> 
> 1)
> As I've noticed, MPlayer has the safest and best re-indexing code.
> Ie. AviDemux falls down everytime. Is there any way how to add some
> switch (ie. to mencoder???) to save new re-indexed movie?
>
use mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -idx  infile.avi -o outfile.avi

this will copy the audio/video streams and index the movie if it wasn't
indexed before...

if you want to reindex a movie use -forceidx instead of -idx...


and btw. it's all in the manpages, so rtfm :-)

bye,
gabor
> 2)
> I've got webcam and MEncoder seems as best recording sw to me.
> But when you record from webcam, you need the realtime preview,
> that's pretty obvious. Is there any way doing this? If not (and
> I suppose there isn't), here are my two suggestions:
> 
> a) Add support to vloopback module (probably the best way - than just run
> mplayer to vloopback output)
> 
> b) Directly in MEncoder (don't like this one :-)
> 
> TNX.
> 
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