[MPlayer-users] Problem with mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:14:09PM +0400, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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?

Eh? The problem here is field-encoded mpeg, and copying the vob to hd
first will not help...

Rich