[MPlayer-users] Newbie problems with mencoder

[Moebius]

Hi, 

I'm new with mencoder and I have some few problems. Sorry if answer seems 
obvious for gurus but I doesn't find them in any doc.

1) Mencoder doc talks about Encoding to MPEG format but option -of mpeg 
doesn't work on my system (I'm using MEncoder 0.90rc2). How can I manage with 
this?

2) I have a problem to deal with somes ASF encoded files. I'm trying to 
transform these files to AVI files using 2 (or 3) pass MPEG-4 encoding. The 
aims is to be able to merge then after using avimerge.
The problem is that mencoder segfaults on certains files at the begining of 
the last pass.

Here is the output of the faulting pass

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MEncoder 0.90rc2-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Reading /home/redonnet/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 125 video codecs
Detected AVI file format!
VIDEO:  [FrNo]  320x240  24bpp  1000,00 fps    0,5 kbps ( 0,1 kbyte/s)
Using pass3 control file: frameno.avi
Reading config file /home/redonnet/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or 
directory
init_freetype
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x11D141
Detected ASF file format!
VIDEO:  [MP42]  320x240  24bpp
[V] filefmt:6  fourcc:0x3234504D  size:320x240  fps:1000,00  ftime:=0,0010
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmp42] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ MPEG-4 v2)
==========================================================================
audiocodec: framecopy (format=55 chans=2 rate=22050 bits=0 bps=15774 sample=0)
Writing AVI header...
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
videocodec: libavcodec (320x240 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX])
requested bitrate is to low
could not open codec
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver!
init_vo failed
ext header missing, 0 left
mp_image: Unknown out_fmt: 0x84B01B0
Segmentation fault

I suppose there is something I missed somewhere, but what ? Or is it a bug ?

If necessary, I can post 2 small video clips. One on which encoding is working 
and one on which its not working.

Hope this descrioption is enough to help you to help me ;-)

jmr