[MEncoder-users] dv file crashes mencoder consistently

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 14 February 2008 at 12:32, Bram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In response to my own question I asked a week earlier:
> 
> > mencoder test_dv_crasher.dv -o /tmp/bla.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid
> > 
> > Command output:
> > 
> > MEncoder dev-SVN-r25958-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm)64 X2 Dual Core Processor  3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 43, Stepping: 1)
> > 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
> > 
> > success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x500000
> > MPEG-PS file format detected.
> >
> 
> The problem is that mplayer doesn't detect the input video as a dv video
> file. Now I tried to enforce this by adding '-vc libdv' (and it's linked
> with libdv obviously), but this doesn't change a thing. 
> 
> How do I get mencoder to consider the input as dv? Can the autodetection
> be overridden? 
> 
> Alternatively, can I mangle the input file such that mencoder will
> autodetect it as dv (e.g. prepend it with some header, or something
> similar) ?

Try -demuxer lavf or avi or rawdv

Regards,
R.

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