[MPlayer-users] Fixing an index

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:46:49AM +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> I have an avi file with no index, so every time I play the file with mplayer, 
> the index is generated without problems. So I wanted to create it permanently 
> as its described in the documentation:
> mencoder -forceidx video.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o video_idx.avi

No need for -forceidx or -idx! A completely new index is generated as
mplayer runs that's unrelated to the index -idx or -forceidx
generates. The only time you need to use one of these two options with
mencoder is if you have a really broken file, e.g. from concatenating
two avi files.

Rich