[MEncoder-users] Error "FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver" when trying to encode to h.264

[Jan Ott]

Hi Christian,
thank you for answering.

Christian Ebert schrieb:

> * Jan Ott on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 11:49:31 +0100
>> Answering to my own post:
>> 
>> I found out that the error is related to x264 encoding option
>> "direct_8x8=-1". Without this option the script works.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> $ x264 --fullhelp | grep direct_8x8
> 
> yields nothing.

Exactly.

> $ x264 --fullhelp | grep 8x8
> [...]
> 
> Are you looking for either 8x8dct or direct_pred, both of which
> you are already using and which are documented? Or for the 8x8
> partitions?

Neither. I am looking for an answer to the question whether I can just
leave this option away without affecting encoding quality. As it seems
to be undocumented or even non existent, I will give it a try to do
without it.

Jan