Missing scrollbar in movies

[iNfRaC00L]

Hi everyone!

Not so long ago I switched to kubuntu lucid from windows and therefore I still prefer to use GUIs to encode movies. So I've been using handbrake or acidrip. That programs are easy enough for me and make the job done.
The only problem is, which ever program I use, the movies have no playback scrollbar. Everything else is fine; size/quality.
If anyone ever encountered and solved this, I would be grateful for any solution.

[Selur]

which ever program I use
did you try smplayer?

[iNfRaC00L]

did you try smplayer?
Actually, what I meant was whichever of those two programs (acidrip & handbrake) I use to encode/rip, the video gets encoded without chapter markers or it's size is not known to player-it's my guess, I'm not quite sure.
I made .mp4 movie about 100 MB which has scrollbar but I didn't try to rip the whole dvd in that format. I did try the whole dvd in .avi or .mkv and size was ~700 MB and quality was very satisfying.
Although I even tried to use smplayer as you mentioned, which always has visible scrollbar, nothing happens when I scroll; the movie just plays normally.
bottomline:
first I used handbrake and the movie (.mkv) had no scrollbar, so I thought it's a bug in a program.
Then I used acidrip (.avi) and got the same result.
So why would two different programs producing two different formats have the same bug. It's logically to me that problem resides somwhere else. Where might that be, I would like to be told...

[SledgeHammer_999]

I suppose you mean "seek bar" not "scroll bar". Maybe those 2 programs write wrongly the container format(matroska). One way to make sure is this. Download mkvtoolnix through synaptic and then open mmg(mkvmerge's gui). Then drag and drop your reencoded file(the matroska one) and remux it to a different location. Is the new file seekable?

[iNfRaC00L]

SledgeHammer_999, you rule! After only 35 seconds of remuxing, the movies have the seek bar and are even 3 megs smaller; 694MB before and 691MB after.

Thanks a ton!

[SledgeHammer_999]

I think both acidrip and handbrake use mencoder as a backend. Probably ubuntu has an old version of mencoder in the repositories, or just mencoder has buggy implementation of matroska muxing.

About the size, usually mkvtoolnix writes clean matroska files without extra garbage that result in bigger filesizes.

[microchip8]

Handbrake doesn't use mencoder, nor does acidrip ;)

[SledgeHammer_999]

You made me search grrrrr :p

You are partially right. Handbrake uses a bunch of (L)GPL libs -->https://trac.handbrake.fr/browser/trunk/CREDITS
Acidrip definetely uses mencoder though->http://untrepid.com/acidrip/