[Matroska-users] problem converting from avi to matroska

[bayrouni]

bayrouni wrote:
> also I am using:
> mkvmerge v2.0.2 because it enables me to pass from avi directly to mkv.
> mplayer,mencoder and x264 all from svn 2 or 3 days ago.
> 
> Others videos were encoded correctly and passing all the steps from vob 
> to mkv exactly with the sames options.
> 
> I thing the only thing change between 2 enconding is the crop option 
> (Normal :) ).
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> mkvinfo  title.mkv
> + EBML head
> |+ Doc type: matroska
> |+ Doc type version: 1
> |+ Doc type read version: 1
> + Segment, size 1072402697
> |+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped)
> |+ EbmlVoid (size: 4027)
> |+ Segment information
> | + Timecode scale: 1000000
> | + Muxing application: libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
> | + Writing application: mkvmerge v2.0.2 ('You're My Flame') built on 
> Apr 21 2007 23:36:07
> | + Duration: 4759.488s (01:19:19.488000000)
> | + Date: Mon Apr 23 21:37:26 2007 UTC
> | + Segment UID: 0xe7 0x87 0x28 0x04 0x16 0x4d 0x7f 0xda 0x2e 0xee 0x12 
> 0x96 0xf4 0x9a 0x0f 0xea
> |+ Segment tracks
> | + A track
> |  + Track number: 1
> |  + Track UID: 2527367824
> |  + Track type: video
> |  + Enabled: 1
> |  + Default flag: 1
> |  + Forced flag: 0
> |  + Lacing flag: 0
> |  + MinCache: 1
> |  + Timecode scale: 1.000000
> |  + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
> |  + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
> |  + Codec decode all: 1
> |  + CodecPrivate, length 41
> |  + Default duration: 40.000ms (25.000 fps for a video track)
> |  + Language: und
> |  + Video track
> |   + Pixel width: 720
> |   + Pixel height: 432
> |   + Interlaced: 0
> |   + Display width: 1024
> |   + Display height: 432
> | + A track
> |  + Track number: 2
> |  + Track UID: 2806436396
> |  + Track type: audio
> |  + Enabled: 1
> |  + Default flag: 1
> |  + Forced flag: 0
> |  + Lacing flag: 1
> |  + MinCache: 0
> |  + Timecode scale: 1.000000
> |  + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
> + Codec ID: A_AC3
> |  + Codec decode all: 1
> |  + Default duration: 32.000ms (31.250 fps for a video track)
> |  + Language: und
> |  + Audio track
> |   + Sampling frequency: 48000.000000
> |   + Channels: 2
> |+ EbmlVoid (size: 1024)
> |+ Cluster
> 
> 
> 


I  resolved the problem doing:
mencoder -idx  -oac copy -ovc copy ...

For some reason the avi file was badly encoded because it was impossible 
to seek into this file.


Thanks.