[MEncoder-users] FPS changed ... -> 0.000

[Corey Hickey]

Brian Szymanski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a sporatic problem with ty files I grab from my tivo where I
> get the following message:
>   Warning! FPS changed 29.970 -> 0.000  (29.969999) [15]
> 
> This is the last thing mencoder does before getting caught in what appears
> to be an infinite loop (it ran for over 48 hours on a p4 at 3GHz with no
> further messages).
> 
> I think this is happening when a tivo loses its satellite feed
> temporarily, resulting in a blank space in the .ty file? Trying to play
> the .ty file with mplayer results in a similar problem - the display
> garbles and then freezes until one presses an arrow key to seek forward a
> bit, when the display returns.
> 

If the same problem happens with mplayer, you may want to ask your
question on mplayer-users instead of mencoder-users. This is a very new
list and I don't think it yet has the same developer readership as
mplayer-users does.

Before you post, however, read the bug reporting guidelines:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html

-Corey