[mythtv-users] problem playing divx encoded videos with mplayer (slightly OT)

[Stephen Tait]

Well, I'm no expert, but for some reason mplayer thinks your AVI files have 
broken indexes, hence it scans the entire file and builds it's own 
temporary index. Was mplayer compiled with win32 AVI support?

AFAIK, if you really do have broken indexes, you can use VDub (or VDubMod 
for preference) to rebuild them.

As an aside, I've had much better luck with the OGM container format, which 
also has support for embedding subtitles and DVD chapter information.

At 23:18 16/07/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I have encoded my entire dvd collection with the divx5 codec.  I have 
>Mythvideo set to play my videos with mplayer, and most will play just 
>fine.  But for a couple of the files, it takes mplayer over a minute 
>before it actually starts playing the movie.  This is the last message 
>displayed:
>
>AVI file format detected.
>AVI: ODML: Building odml index (2 superindexchunks)
>If I wait a minute or so, the movie will start playing.  Both Xine and 
>Windows Media Player will play it just fine.  Has anyone seen this 
>before?  I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.2.
>
>Thanks,
>Darren
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