[MEncoder-users] change bpp

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:08:19PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:41:49 -0500
> The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Unlike many projects, MPlayer's CVS is intended to be stable and
> > usable at almost all times.
> 
> Not to flame anyone, but that brings up an interesting recent CVS
> story...
> 
> I was doing a binary CVS search, trying to locate a change that caused
> CVS to be unable to compile (libtheora problem) which was sometime
> between the end of Sep and the Begining of Nov.
> 
> Every other date I'd use wouldn't even get that far, because mplayer
> compilation would fail from some other bug before it got to the
> libtheora code...  Now, maybe I was just really, really unlucky in the
> dates I used, and just happened to hit the only 4 serious compilation
> failures in Oct, but that's obviously unlikely.
> 
> I don't understand why everyone else thinks CVS is as stable as
> releases. Those are only the compilation errors, who knows how often it
> has segfaults.

You must be doing something really strange, because no one else I know
has encountered such a problem.

Rich