[MPlayer-users] Mplayer can't play long file with -(force)idx, but can from stdin

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 16 October 2003, Joseph N. Hall wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Yesterday, while piping a roughly 30GB huffyuv avi to 
> mpeg2enc via -vo yuv4mpeg, I got a "seek error" or
> something like that while attempting to play the
> file directly.  I had to pipe the file into mplayer,
> for example:
> 
>   cat real.big.avi | mplayer - ... -vo yuv4mpeg
> 
> The index went OK and playback went fine up till the
> point where it crashed.
> 
> This was using a relatively recent mplayer beta (athlon) 
> rpm.  Is this a known bug and/or known to be fixed?

Please retry with latest CVS source...

> If you want more details, I should be able to reproduce
> the error easily.

... and if the problem persists, submit a proper bugreport.
Thanks.

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