[MPlayer-cygwin] Mencoder problems

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:39:17PM -0400, Matt Maher wrote:
> 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?

Read the output.

> videocodec: XviD (1920x1080 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
> xvid: you must specify one or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 
> 'quantizer' settings
> FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

This is the error.  You must specify one of bitrate, pass, or quantizer.

--Joey

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