[MEncoder-users] mencoder with mpeg12 decoder crash

[John Ratliff]

On 10/19/2010 03:16 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 06:19:31AM -0400, John Ratliff wrote:
>    
>> On 10/19/2010 02:37 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:09:43PM -0400, John Ratliff wrote:
>>>        
>>>> But remove the -vc mpeg12 line and I get none.
>>>>          
>>> Congratulations you found out why the mpeg12 decoder is not
>>> longer used by default.
>>>        
>> So mpeg12 is dead and shouldn't be used anymore? I guess I'll remove
>> it from my scripts then.
>>      
> It did not change _much_, it was always rather unstable (though possibly
> more strict compiler have made it a bit worse).
> Unfortunately unless you use -demuxer lavf I cannot fully recommend the
> other decoder either, it might end up with some frames at the beginning
> being dropped due to a parser bug (libmpcodecs/dec_video.c sometimes
> will not split the first few frames correctly).
>    
Okay, I'll try both for awhile.

Thanks for the idea,

--John Ratliff