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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 26 May 2004 at 21:51, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> 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;"

Is that enough? If so, I can release fixed RPMs with this change this
weekend.

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