[MEncoder-users] H.264 with pre7 works, with pre8 does not

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/15/06, GeBu <GeBu at seznam.cz> wrote:
> Sorry. You are right.
> New information:
> 1) On Debian from www.debian-multimedia.org my (updated) version is pre8
> does not work.
> 2) On Debian from www.debian-multimedia.org on friend machine (NO
> updated) version is pre7 works.
> 3) On Mandriva compilated pre8 works
> 4) On Windows from http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php pre8 works
> It looks on problem on www.debian-multimedia.org. I must wait.
> Jirka (GeBu)
>
> MEncoder 1.0pre8-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Step
> ping: 4)
> CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x2e27fec
> AVI file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [dvsd]  720x576  24bpp  25.000 fps  28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)
> [V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x64737664  size:720x576  fps:25.00  ftime:=0.0400
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
> Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
> Opening video filter: [scale w=512 h=384]
> Opening video filter: [pp=lb]
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [dshow] DirectShow video codecs
> Decoder supports the following YUV formats: YUY2 UYVY
> Decoder is capable of YUV output (flags 0x9)
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2)
> [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
> Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
>
> SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Packed YUY2 to Planar YV12 using MMX2
> x264 [error]: invalid RC method
> x264_encoder_open failed.
> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
> VDecoder init failed   :(
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV decoder)
> ==========================================================================
> MP3 audio selected.
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 1)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> x264 [error]: invalid RC method
> x264_encoder_open failed.
> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 1)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> x264 [error]: invalid RC method
> x264_encoder_open failed.
> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
>
> Exiting...

Please use latest version of MEncoder (and x264), compiled from
sources. Marillat's package is just outdated.

Guillaume
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