[MPlayer-users] Can't seek beyond 1GB

[Michael Weissenbacher]

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| The file has a size of appr. 1.5GB. Seeking works usually fine in the
| file, but when I try to seek beyond a certain point in the file it
| always jumps to that point. I estimate that this point is at exactly
| 1GB. I had this phenomenom in several files, always at 1GB.
| There's one line of text shown when I try to seek. Here's the complete
| output:
this is exaclty the problem me and some other guys dicussed under
"OpenDML problem" about 1 week ago. so far there seems to be no good
solution for the problem. for me the problem automagically disappeared
after i changed some encoding parameters, but i don't remember exactly
which ones. the current cvs has a switch -noodml to disable odml but
this doesn't allow you to go over 2gb, which is better than 1gb.

with this commandline (for the second pass):
$ cat 2004-04-27.20\:05.99.99.rec/001.vdr
2004-04-27.20\:05.99.99.rec/002.vdr 2004-04-27.20\:05.99.99.rec/003.vdr
| /bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
bitrate=1500:gmc:vhq=4:interlacing:pass=2 -srate 44100 -oac mp3lame
- -lameopts cbr:br=128 -vf scale=720:-2,crop=704:400 -zoom -mc 0.1 -cache
65536 - -o movie.avi
i get a 2.5gb avi-file that is seekable ok by mplayer, but i'm having
problems with using ogmmerge to produce an .ogm out of it or using
avidemux2 to split it. what is even more strage, if i do an:
$ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o movie2.avi movie.avi
i can use ogmmerge without problems on the file movie2.avi.

that's what i found out so far, currently i cannot say which of the
tools doesn't corretly implement the OpenDML-standard but there seems to
be some problem in mplayer's code because under certain circumstances
(like yours) it cannot seek in files that were encoded by itself's mencoder.

regards,
michael weissenbacher
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