[MPlayer-users] Problem copying MPEG4 AVC video.

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Louis Tim Larsen

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Mar 8, 2012, 6:11:24 PM3/8/12
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Hi,
I've upgraded to the current development version of Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64.
I use the current version of mencoder available in Ubuntu 12.04 which
is: MEncoder svn r34540
I try to copying some video with this command (to change the start time):

mencoder input.mpg -o output.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -force-avi-aspect 16:9

But when I try to play the output-file in Totem 3.0.1 it only plays the
audio and failing to playing while searching for a video/x-avi-unknown
decoder. VLC 2.0.0-4 also only plays the audio.

If you check the attracted file you can see that it's like video drops
all frames when it copies the video. I think I have all needed plugins
so I don't understand this.

I've tried with Mencoder 1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu16.1 on Ubuntu
10.04, Mencoder 1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn33713-1 (from repo) and the daily PPA
version in Ubuntu 11.10 with the same results.

If I transcode the video with lets says x264 and ac3 the output-file
plays fine in both Totem and Totem. However I don't want to transcode 2
hour of video if I only want 20 minutes of it.

If I try to transcode the input-file with HandBrake 0.9.6 it's feels
like every second frame is missing since the audio becomes very lackey.

I've tried to look at google and some forums but couldn't find a
solution. I would be happy if someone could help =)

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Regards Louis

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Carl Eugen Hoyos

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Mar 9, 2012, 7:04:31 AM3/9/12
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Louis Tim Larsen <louis <at> louis.dk> writes:

> I've upgraded to the current development version of Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64.
> I use the current version of mencoder available in Ubuntu 12.04

This is an intentionally broken version of MEncoder that afaict is
not supported here, please either test by compiling yourself or
try ffmpeg -i input.mpg -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.avi
(also current git head, both FFmpeg and MPlayer do not have to
be installed to work, i.e. you can test from the build directory).

Carl Eugen

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