[MEncoder-users] x264 encoder broken?

[Corey Hickey]

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
[cut]
> 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.

This should be fixed now in SVN r19936.

-Corey