[MEncoder-users] newbie help request - can't compile JPGs into movie

[Gilles Pelletier]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Franco Pellegrini <frapell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:05 AM, eccn <eccn at spherica.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>  > Hi, nice to meet you all
>  >
>  >  I'm trying to use mencoder to compile any number of .JPG images, with
>  >  varying but incomplete results. Please can anyone suggest what might be
>  >  going wrong for me?
>  >
>  >  OS: Ububtu 7.10
>  >  Mencoder version 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.2
>  >
>  >
>  >  When I try executing (1), it creates a zero size .avi output file, and
>  >  dumps the core giving (2):
>  >
>  >  (1)
>  >  mencoder mf://*.JPG -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>  >  vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell -oac copy -o output.avi
>  >
>  >
>  >  (2)
>  >  *** glibc detected *** mencoder: corrupted double-linked list:
>  >  0x088fddd0 ***
>  >  ======= Backtrace: =========
>  >  /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb74f1074]
>  >  /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x90)[0xb74f1fc0]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb75e2a8d]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(ft_mem_qalloc+0x1b)[0xb75e62cb]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(ft_mem_alloc+0x33)[0xb75e7f13]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(ft_mem_qrealloc+0xd6)[0xb75e8066]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(ft_mem_realloc+0x4f)[0xb75e812f]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb7631ac4]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb7600b00]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb75fed99]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb75ffa9a]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6[0xb75e8dce]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(FT_Open_Face+0x2c7)[0xb75ea717]
>  >  /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6(FT_New_Memory_Face+0x4e)[0xb75eb42e]
>  >  mencoder(read_font_desc_ft+0x4c2)[0x80c16e2]
>  >
>  >
>  >  I've had a good look for missing libraries, but can't see what's going
>  >  wrong.
>  >
>  >  Thanks in advance
>  >
>  >  Matt
>  >
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>
>  Hi Matt, if you take a look into the list archive (is there any? i
>  hope so...) you'll see some other threads about creating a video from
>  several JPG... however that error seems to be some memory problem. Try
>  upgrading your version of mencoder/mplayer
>
>  cheers,
>  Franco
>
>  PS: btw, if you want to do a slideshow with pictures, try dvd-slideshow
>
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Your code line contains '-mf w=800:h=600' but are your jpg images
really that size or larger?
I had a similar problem that disappeared when I used imagemagic to
reduce my images to 640 x 480.
Mencoder didn't like my 3264 X 2448 images.