Extracting video data with mplayer

[Michael447]

Hello,

I want to extract video data from an avi file.

So I tried "mplayer -dumpvideo" , but the resulting file is not readable.

It has about 80% of the original filesize and when using a file compare tool there source file and the dump file have many identical sections.

When I do the same procedure with an mpeg source file, the video dump file is alright!

What am I doing wrong ?

Btw: Although I use XP, I'm posting this in the Linux forum, as there are not so many people out there using mplayer under windows..

Thanks in advance!
Michael

[lpn1160]

Mplayers options to extract video from an avi is not -dumpvideo -dumpfile, and it's mencoder that does this job like so:
"mencoder -idx -ovc copy -nosound input.avi -o outfile.avi"

http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/docs/mplayer-man.html

try also from a terminal
man mplayer
info mplayer