[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder: ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MiB -> Brocken AVI as result

[Tobias Diedrich]

Christopher Scheuring wrote:

> The thing is, that I got following message from mencoder will encoding
> files > 1023MiB: ODML: Starting new RIFF chunk at 1023MiB...
> After this message I get many errors whith skipping frames etc. The
> result AVI is OK until the 1023MiB-position. After that point i got
> seek-errors (couldn't seek behind this position) and the displayed
> total-time of the AVI is wrong. (e.x.: converted 2h MPEG at 1400 bits.
> The size of the AVI is about 1,4MiB. The displayed totaltime about
> 1h34... seeking behind 1h34 does'nt works.)

It's a known problem that MPlayer-1.0pre4 will ignore the opendml
extension for avi's <2GB.
Please comment out line 230 in libmpdemux/aviheader.c:
"if (demuxer->movi_end < 0x7fffffff) break;"
Or use the CVS version of mplayer.

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