[MEncoder-users] svq3 file plays fine in mplayer, mencoder breaks on it

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Bram Avontuur wrote:
> videocodec: XviD (550x265 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
> xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=550x265, sampled=550x265
> xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=600kbit/s
> xvid: xvidcore returned a 'General fault' error
> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

There is no way that XVID could encode a video with odd resolutions,
you will have to crop or scale, preferable to something divisible by 8.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger