[MPlayer-cygwin] mencoder under Windows

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:50:53AM -0700, Eleftherios Gkioulekas wrote:
> I hope that the following question is not off-topic.  I tried earlier to use
> mencoder-1.0pre5 (mingw binary distribution) and found that it crashes
> depending on what options I call it with.  Is this a problem that is
> particular to the binary distribution that I've used? Will I have better
> luck if I compile it myself using cygwin? I'm using Windows XP professional
> SP1, but I'm planning to upgrade to SP2. I'm also wondering if it will help
> to upgrade to DirectX 9.0. If it is in fact possible to do a two-pass
> encoding from dvd to mpeg4 with mencoder under Windows I would like to know
> that in advance.

Mencoder has nothing to do with directx.  Directx is for display.
In general, there are certain combinations of options that will crash
mencoder regardless of platform.  Please send a detailed bugreport if
you want them fixed.

It is possible to do a 2-pass encode from dvd to mpeg4 with mencoder
under Windows.  I do it frequently.  If you are having problems, please
send details.

--Joey

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