[MPlayer-users] Re: AVIs > 2gigs

[Chris Frey]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:54:12AM -0600, Wayde Milas wrote:
> Yes. Avi's (because of the way they store indexes.. would a long long
> have been that hard?) cannot have indexes when the file sizes is larger
> than 2 Gigs.
> 
> If you want an index you have 2 choices:
> 1) Every time you play it do a -forceidx which will cause mplayer to
> scan the whole movie each time before it plays and generate and index.
> Thi is slow and generally sucks IRL.
> 2) After encoding do a mplayer -saveidx name.idx name.avi -frames 0 This
> causes mplayer to compute the index and save it as name.idx. Next time
> you want to play teh avi file, just add -loadidx name.idx to your
> parameter string, and you will have a working index :)

Thanks for the quick answers guys!
- Chris