Re: mplayer can't play big file by mencoder

[Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com>]

zhou@debian:~$ ls /mnt/play/output/output192.avi -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zhou root 4294967295 Apr 26 17:59 /mnt/play/output/output192.avi

it's vfat, it's on same disk as debian, i think disk is ok

zhou@debian:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev
tmpfs           304M  4.5M  299M   2% /run
/dev/sda2       9.8G  6.0G  3.4G  65% /
tmpfs           1.5G  4.8M  1.5G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3       269G  219G   50G  82% /mnt/play
/dev/sda1        20G  9.4G   11G  47% /mnt/work
tmpfs           304M  4.0K  304M   1% /run/user/1000

i think mencoder and mplayer are by same developers,

but they still have compatible problem

On Monday, April 27, 2020, 11:56:00 PM GMT+8, Nemeth Gyorgy <lists@friczy.net> wrote:

2020. 04. 26. 21:52 keltezéssel, Long Wind írta:

> i use stretch's mencoder to record a/v
> and use mplayer to play them, it works well
>
> yesterday i record a big file, about 4GB
> mplayer fails to play it,
> any idea or player that might help? Thanks!
>
> below is error msg by mplayer:
>
> zhou@debian:~$ mplayer /mnt/play/output/output192.avi
> ....

> Seek failed
> AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (2 superindexchunks).

Perhaps a filesystem problem? If it is a mounted external drive: what
kind of filesystem has it?