Re: Question about mencoder and indexing

In comp.os.linux.misc on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:13:20 -0500, James Egan
<jegan472@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[building indexes with mencoder]

I can then rewind and fast forward through the .mov file, but mplayer has
to build the indexes first. It seems as thought mencoder should build the
indexes though, according to the man page. Any ideas?

As far as I can tell, -forceidx works on the input file(s), not the
output file.

Try splitting the process in two.

$ mencoder -oac pcm -ovc copy $* -o temp.mov
$ mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy temp.mov -o combined.mov

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