[MEncoder-users] Opening Local SDP files with mencoder

[Ben Barker]

A bit more detail:

On the older release (which works) we get:


mencoder -v sdp://test.sdp -o test.mp4
MEncoder SVN-r36450-snapshot-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading optional codecs config file /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: No such
file or directory
Reading optional codecs config file /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: No such file
or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Bitmap font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
get_path('fonts') -> '/root/.mplayer/fonts'

WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.
Configuration: --extra-cflags=-I/usr/include/directfb --prefix=/usr
--libdir=/usr/lib64 --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --confdir=/etc/mplayer
--mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-joystick --enable-radio
--enable-radio-capture --enable-menu --enable-xmms --enable-xvmc
--with-xvmclib=XvMCW --enable-runtime-cpudetection --language=all
STREAM: [SDP] sdp://test.sdp
STREAM: Description: SDP stream descriptor
STREAM: Author: Ross Finlayson
STREAM: Comment: Uses LIVE555 Streaming Media library.
success: format: 21  data: 0x0 - 0x0
 file format detected.
Initiated "video/MP4V-ES" RTP subsession on port 50010
Increased video socket receive buffer to 2000000 bytes
==> Found video stream: 0
...
..
.
At which point the stream is joined and all is good

In the latest mencoder, I get:

mencoder -v sdp://test.sdp -o test.mp4
MEncoder SVN-r36784-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading optional codecs config file /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: No such
file or directory
Reading optional codecs config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: No
such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/root/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
get_path('fonts') -> '/root/.mplayer/fonts'

WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.
Configuration:
No stream found to handle url sdp://7500.sdp
Cannot open file/device.

Exiting...

Any thoughts?


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Ben Barker <ben at bbarker.co.uk> wrote:

> I have an installed version of mencoder where I can open an SDP file using:
>
> mencoder sdp://test.sdp -fps 25 -ovc lavc -o test.mp4
>
> The version installed is:
>
> Encoder SVN-r36450-snapshot-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2013
>
>
> I have just tried the same with the latest version from the repositories
> - MEncoder SVN-r36784-4.1.2 - which I have built from source with no
> obvious problems.
>
> This however gives me:
>
> No stream found to handle url sdp://test.sdp
>
> In response to the same command above
>
> Has the ability to join a stream via a lcoal SDP file been lost in this
> newer release, or just changed....?
>