[MPlayer-users] -oac copy + -audiofile broken?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:03:21PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:49:08AM +0200, TJ wrote:
> > > I second the problem, see my post "mencoder complains about css when 
> > > reading a .wav (!!)" from last month. Mencoder with -audiofile just 
> > > doesn't seem to work for me. My case was special in that the .avi file 
> > > was >2GB, and I thought it might be the cause of problem somehow (even 
> > > though I have mplayer compiled with large files support).
> > 
> > Well -audiofile works fine if you re-encode the audio. But it breaks
> > with -oac copy.
> 
> mp3 audio file? or wav? or both broken?

I've looked into the problem a bit, and it seems demux_audio.c sets up
broken audio headers/waveformat. For instance, some fields aren't even
initialized and contain bogus out-of-range values. I've tried fixing
it, but -oac copy seems to break even worse then... :( Think you could
take a look?

Rich