[MEncoder-users] ERROR: SCR: warning; what does that mean?

[Brian Keener]

Brian Keener wrote:

> I'm re-encoding a huffyuv-encoded file to mpeg2, dvd-compatible video 
> stream.
>
> My command line is:
>
> mencoder tv.avi -of mpeg -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=8000:keyint=25 -vf 
> hqdn3d,pullup,pp=md,scale=720:480 -noskip -o tvout.mpg
>
> I'm pretty happy with the quality, but I'm still getting lots of 
> errors like
>
> ERROR: SCR: 874360377, APTS: 844830475, DELTA=-0.320 secs
>
> ERROR: SCR: 874469454, APTS: 849649125, DELTA=-0.269 secs
>
> ERROR: SCR: 874578531, APTS: 856877100, DELTA=-0.192 secs
>
> ERROR: SCR: 874687608, APTS: 864105075, DELTA=-0.115 secs
>
> ERROR: SCR: 874796685, APTS: 871333050, DELTA=-0.038 secs
>
> Also, mencoder seems to try to maintain re-encoding performance of 
> ~30fps, when I'd expect the re-encoding to run substantially slower, 
> especially with the scaling/noise reduction/etc.  I'm not talking 
> about the fps of the outputted file, I'm talking about the number of 
> frames processed by mencoder per second.
>
> Any information?
>
> Brian K
>
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Ah, I think I found it.  Somehow I dropped "harddup" from my filter 
chain during my tweaking; I re-added it, and it seems to be working just 
peachy.

Brian K