[MPlayer-users] AVI: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:42:42PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:38:57 +0100
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm.. maybe the problem the problem is due to limitations in the avi
> > container format (the 2GB thingy)? 
> 
> If you've compiled mplayer with largefile support, and are allowing
> mplayer to write ODML headers, it should work fine.  This could always
> be a bug that's already been fixed, so trying latest CVS before
> reporting bugs is standard.
> 
> > Or can i somehow get *lossless/lowloss* mpeg2 movie directly (*if* my
> > pc can encode it quicly enough)?
> 
> mpeg2video with vqscale=2 and keyint=1 will be practically perfect (no,
> not lossless), and very fast.
> 
> If you want lossless, try huffyuv.

huffyuv is lossy because it requires rescaling to 4:2:2 sampling.
You want to use ffhuff for lossless, or ffv1 (slow but better
compression).

> > What audio format does a normal HW DVD-player use?
> 
> AC3 is standard.  Most all seem to support MP2 audio as well.

MP2 is only supported for PAL DVD. For NTSC either AC3 or PCM is
required. :( For this reason independent DVD producers who don't want
to pay AC3 license fees feel compelled to use PCM which wastes a good
1/5 of the bitrate on audio.. :(

Rich