[MPlayer-users] Bug: Mencoder + "-v 0" => no Avi index

[The Wanderer]

Rich Felker wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:39:13PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> mencoder "mf://*.png" -mf fps=25 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o 
>> del.avi -v 1
>> 
>> leads to:
>> 
>> [...]
>> ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)     0mb  A-V:0.000 [1159:0] 
>> A/Vms 0/55 D/B/S 0/0/0
>> uninit video: mpng
>> File not found: '1'
>> Failed to open 1
>> Cannot open file/device.
>> 
>> Exiting...
>> --------
>> 
>> So Mencoder interprets the "1" form "-v 1" as an non existing file.
>> The resulting Avi does not include any index so seeking is not
>> possible.
>> 
>> The manpage says that "-v 1" (or -v 0) should be OK:
> 
> No, this number is not an argument. It's the number of occurrances of
> -v on the command line.

This mistake crops up often enough that I think it would be a good idea
to either rephrase that section of the man page or add an explanation in
some other part of the documentation, but I don't know of any other
place which would be good, and I'm not sure how to rephrase for better
clarity in a way which would be appropriate for the man page. Does
anyone else have any ideas?

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