[MPlayer-cygwin] Mencoder problems

[Matt Maher]

I appologize, but it's hard to find info on how to use mencoder, so I 
wonder if you can tell me what I might be doing wrong and how I can use it.

Basically, I got an HD decoder card for my computer recently, and the 
format it saves captures to has the .tp extension.  I don't know if this 
is something that mencoder will be able to handle very well, but mplayer 
plays it just fine, oddly.

First I tried using this line:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy t.tp t.avi

This successfully created a basic AVI of the file, as you'd expect.  It 
did give a bunch of errors during the encoding, but it all seemed to be 
something to do with the video resolution.

Anyway, I then tried this:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc xvid t.tp t.avi

That didn't work so well.  Mencoder crashed after giving me the 
following.  What do I do?

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CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino 1522 MHz 
(Family: 6,
 Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Reading C:/Program Files/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'C:/Program Fil
es/mplayer/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open 
'/usr/local/etc/mplayer/c
odecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
Reading config file C:/Program Files/mplayer/mplayer/mencoder: No such 
file or d
irectory
font: can't open file: C:/Program Files/mplayer/mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x11566100
TS file format detected.
DEMUX OPEN, AUDIO_ID: -1, VIDEO_ID: -1, SUBTITLE_ID: -1,
PROBING UP TO 2000000, PROG: 0
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=17)...AUDIO A52(pid=20) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. -1
Opened TS demuxer, audio: 2000(pid 20), video: 10000002(pid 17)...POS=4136
size restrictions for MP at ML or MPEG1 exceeded! (1920x1088)
VIDEO:  MPEG2  1920x1080  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  16900.0 kbps (2112.5 
kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:29  fourcc:0x10000002  size:1920x1080  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe)  48000 Hz  384.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
xvid: using library version 1.0.-127 (build xvid-1.0.0)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1080 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.3.1
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16 bps=48000 
sample=1
)
Writing AVI header...
VDec: vo config request - 1920 x 1088 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: XviD (1920x1080 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: you must specify one or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 
'quantiz
er' settings
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
Pos:   0.0s      1f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   4mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
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