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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:59:42PM +0200, TJ wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> >>>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.
> >fixed, it was the same problem as with your old
> >mencoder-created avi :) (bad mp3 header)
> 
> -oac copy -audiofile still fails with the latest CVS using a .wav file. 
> It still gives "Encrypted VOB file (not compiled with libcss support)! 
> Read DOCS/cd-dvd.html." for me, eh. Also, -oac mp3lame doesn't help 
> (same message).

Ah, I never tested wav files. Who on earth puts uncompressed audio
into an avi file?? BTW, try with -audio-demuxer 17.

> Converting the .wav-file to .mp3 manually and then using it as the 
> -audiofile source (with -oac copy), mencoder proceeds without errors but 
> the resulting file has the audio wrongly synced, ie. forwarding to near 
> the end of the file plays audio from before half of the .mp3 file (even 
> though the video and audio files are equally long). Verified with 
> another player, and -mc 0 in encoding doesn't have an effect.

Hmm, it works for me now that Arpi fixed it. Are you using latest CVS?

> I guess there are way too many problems before these things work 
> precisely.. in my case the video and audio are 4 hour long (files being 
> 2.2GB and 600MB, --enable-largefiles is needed) so any bug gets huge.

AVI > 2 GB does not work afaik.

Rich