[MPlayer-users] Problems with cating two DivX AVIs

[Matthias Czapla]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:57:12PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I then do:
> cat Title.avi Content.avi | mencoder -noidx -oac copy -ovc copy -o Vid.avi -
> 
> The resulting file plays, but, if I skip forward or back in the file,
> it does not hit a reference frame and I get an ugly mess for a while. 
> It pretty much straightens up after a few seconds, but some artifacts
> seem to remain. I can skip through either of the source files with no
> problems.
> 
> I have also tried replacing -noidx with -idx, but it seems to make no
> difference. Any idea what I can do to get this to work? Would a -forceidx
> pass on the output file help? (The doc implies that this switch can't be
> used for the concatenation.)

You cant use -forceidx when concatenating but afterwards.
mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy -o Vid_good.avi Vid.avi
solved the problem you described for me.

Regards
Matthias