[MPlayer-users] Problem with mencoder

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Oliver Fromme wrote:

OF> > cat *.vob | nice -+19 mencoder -aid 128 -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o frameno.avi -
OF> > 
OF> > (some frames are skipped)
OF> > 

I wonder why mencoder does this. There is solution, though. When you do

cat *vob | mencoder -, it skips some frames in the beginning (and
produces very jumpy video in first seconds). But if you have enough
space,
cat *vob >temp.vob; mencoder temp.vob
works perfectly, without frame skipping. It really looks like a bug to
me - mencoder _can_ encode without skipping those frames, so why do I
have to make huge temp.vob for this?

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Vladimir