Re: Matlab AVI files

[Miroslaw Kwasniak]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:47:06PM -0500, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 10/08/06, Miroslaw Kwasniak <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I was able to play your avi with mplayer 1.0pre8-3.3.5
> >
> >     mplayer -forceidx -zoom -vo x11 x.avi
> >
> > -forceidx is a magic option for your file ;)
> 
> Wow! I'm impressed! Reading the mplayer manpage, I found:
> 
>   -idx (also see -forceidx)
>   Rebuilds index of files if no index was found, allowing seeking.
> Useful with bro-
>   ken/incomplete downloads, or badly created files.
> 
> Does this mean that Matlab made a "badly created file"?

I don't know details but xanim play such files.

> Also, why the -zoom option? I can't understand the manpage's explanation. :-(

This isn't important (if I use -vo x11 I need it for full screen).
 
> > An another option is mencoder
> >
> >     mencoder -forceidx -ovc lavc -ffourcc VXID -o z.avi x.avi
> >
> > which gives playable file and reduces size from 150MB to 640KB
> 
> Neato! And I can convert it to a more family-friendly format than avi,
> right? What would be the command to do that? Can it do Theora? I see
> no mention of it in the manpage...

To do Theora  you need ffmpeg2theora (with repaired avi).