From 92c62b0574975147a7b4d43fd4989687ff901ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alex Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:16:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] loadidx and saveidx options based on Jasons patch git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@11248 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 index e2eddd1670..962b0bd6f4 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 @@ -784,6 +784,14 @@ You can only use this option if the underlying media supports seeking Skip the proxy for IPv6 addresses. It will still be used for IPv4 connections. .TP +.B \-loadidx +The file name from which to read the video INDEX data. +MPlayer will read the index from filename and use this data for seeking. +This data will override any index data contained in the AVI itself. +Further, MPlayer won't prevent you from loading an index file generated +from a different AVI, but this is sure to cause unfavorable results. +NOTE: this option will be obsoleted once AVI gets ODML support! +.TP .B \-mc Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds). .TP @@ -890,6 +898,19 @@ packets be streamed over TCP (using the same TCP connection as RTSP). This option may be useful if you have a broken Internet connection that does not pass incoming UDP packets (see http://www.live.com/mplayer/). .TP +.B \-saveidx +Force rebuilding of INDEX and output to a separate file specified by the +argument filename. Currently this only works with AVI files. +Although you can use MEncoder to fix files without indexes, MPlayer +does not support seeking in AVI files bigger than 2GB. +(This is a limitation of the AVI format, and although there exists an +extension to index beyond 2GB, MPlayer doesn't yet support this extension.) +After the index file is created, MPlayer will begin to play the video. +If you want to automate index file generation (after encoding a large file +off a TV capture card, for example), you can specify \-frames 0 to +prevent MPlayer from playing the video after generating the index. +NOTE: this option will be obsoleted once AVI gets ODML support! +.TP .B \-sb (see \-ss option too) Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM images / .VOB files with junk at the beginning.