[MEncoder-users] Mencoder failure with -ss and -endpos

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:42:38PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
> This worked for a 43 second block, but for a 90 second block, the second
> pass fails:
[...]
> It stops at 80.8 seconds into the second pass with:
> 
> Pos:  80.8s   1956f (23%)  27fps Trem:   3min  49mb  A-V:0.037 [1105:128]
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> mencoder: ratecontrol.c:644: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion
> `picture_number<rcc->num_entries' failed.

This means that the firstpass log contains only data for 80 seconds. You
have "duplicate frame" messages there, maybe you need to use -vf
harddup?
Or -mc 0 -noskip? or the right framerate for output with -ofps. Or some
inverse telecince (sorry, don't remember what your input format was).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger