[MEncoder-users] msmpegv4 vs msmpeg

[The Wanderer]

srdan bejakovic wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:42 PM, The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> srdan bejakovic wrote:
>> 
>>> Can you explain what I'm doing wrong,
>> 
>> For one thing, you're top-posting. Please avoid that, at least on
>> these mailing lists.
>> 
>>> or what I should do to be able to uncompress these files? I can
>>> open and watch the avis on Windows, and they aren't corrupt.
>> 
>> It's really kind of hard to figure out what's wrong with (or
>> otherwise strange about) the files, without more information. This
>> is one reason the bug-reporting guidelines say to always provide
>> the *full* (copy-and-paste, no snipping) text output of
>> MPlayer/MEncoder.
> 
> Here is the full output. I'm not sure about the commands I was trying
>  before,

They're given in one of your posts earlier in this thread...

> so I just tried a basic command. The output is the same:
> 
> 
> -bash-3.00$ ./mencoder in.avi -o out.avi
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> MEncoder dev-SVN-r27330-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team

Okay, that's not normal. Something very strange is going on with your
setup, and it's not something I can deal with at this remove. Do you get
these kind of iconv messages with any other programs, or just with
MEncoder?

> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x13f400
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> AVI file format detected.
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> AVI_NI: No video stream found.
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
> =============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author!
> ===
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> Cannot open demuxer.
> iconv: conversion from UTF-8 to 646 unsupported
> 
> Exiting...

If that really is the complete output, then I suspect something is
happening between the file being read from disk and MEncoder trying to
parse it which has the effect of garbling the data.

Can MPlayer play the file? (I would expect not.)

Can FFmpeg understand it? (What does 'ffmpeg -i filename.avi' say?)

What does the 'file' program think it is?

Can any of those programs recognize any other AVI files?

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