[MPlayer-users] VOB Seek Issue

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Friday 14 December 2007 00:22:39 Sara Glade ha scritto:

>
> Forward,....
> Can someone seriously take this challenge germane to my original
> question?
>
> Here is what I have (to recap)
>
> Ok, if I use dumpstream to create a VOB, ... it creates a 4+ GB
> file from my movies.
>
> Like: outputtedfile.vob (4.2 GB single file)
>
> Ok, the problem is, when I try to play it using Mplayer, like:
> mplayer outputtedfile.vob .... the "Seek Backward" function does
> not work. :( :( :( Why is this?  Is there some way, --anyway--- to
> make VOB file so that such VOB file retains its rewind capability?
>
>  :)
>
> anyone know?
>

won't you be using windows? IIRC in cygwin or/and mingw32
(unix systems that can host mplayer) files > 4 GB can't be accessed.
If you trim your file to something shorter as with the command:
$ dd if=file.orig of=dest.mpg bs=1024 count=2048000 
and seek in dest.mpg you shouldn't have that problem. Can you confirm?