[MEncoder-users] Loading of mjpg-videocodec?

RC rcooley at spamcop.net
Sat Oct 28 09:22:58 CEST 2006


On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:03:13 +0200
Stefan Neufeind <mencoder at stefan-neufeind.de> wrote:

> (If somebody would like to give it a try, I can provide a demo-file in
> private ...)

Always helpful.

> AVI file format detected.
> AVI: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(
> ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
> =============

> What should I conclude from that? Is mencoder sure it doesn't have the
> codec?

It has nothing to do with codecs.  It can't find ANY video streams in
the AVI file, suggesting a corrupt file.  You might also try -forceidx
as bad/damaged indices cause similar problems.

> Are only the codecs from the essential-package automatically
> recognised by mencooder? Do the others need to be "enabled" using a
> codecs.conf?

No. 




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