[MEncoder-users] x264 encoder broken?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/20/06, Xi Chen <xichen71 at 163.com> wrote:
> Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > For the last few days I havn't been able to encode to x264. Even the
> > simpliest command fails:
> >
> > $ mencoder-cvs -of rawvideo -v dvd://1 -ovc x264 -oac copy -o /dev/null
> > MEncoder dev-SVN-r19918-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ (Family: 15, Model: 31,
> > Stepping: 0)
> > CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> > Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
> >
> Snip.
> > ==========================================================================
> >
> > Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
> > [libaf] Adding filter dummy
> > [dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
> > [dummy] Was reinitialized: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
> > audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16
> > B/s=48000 sample-1)
> > VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> > Trying filter chain: expand x264
> > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
> > Opening video filter: [scale]
> > SwScale params: -1 x -1 (-1=no scaling)
> > Trying filter chain: scale expand x264
> > VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> > Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> > VO Config (720x480->720x540,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
> > Unsupported format Planar I420
> > swScaler: Unknown format is not supported as output format
> > Couldn't init SwScaler for this setup
> > FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
> >
> > Exiting...
> >
> > I have revision 564 of x264. Known problem, or just my problem?
> >
> > Fredrik Eriksson
> >
> >
> Same here. The recent CVS broke x264 encoding. I reverted it to an older
> version and it was fixed.

Could one of you identify what caused the breakage?
If you follow these directions, you should find the offending commit
quite quickly:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_regression_test.html

Guillaume
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