[MPlayer-cygwin] mencoder stability?

[Joey Parrish]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:44:32PM +0000, James Lee wrote:
> The Windows users of my front end to mencoder, iriverter
> (http://iriverter.sourceforge.net), are reporting that the mencoder.exe process
> is crashing on them during the encoding.  They report that it is happening
> almost randomly.  I do not have or use Windows, so I cannot reproduce this
> problem.  I have included the binaries on the mplayer ftp, various third party
> binaries, and I've even compiled my own with mingw, both 1.0pre6 and pre7, yet I
> still receive reports.
> 
> As an example, this is what a command would look like as run by iriverter:
> 
> mencoder /home/jlee/Video/Firefly/firefly.s01e05.safe.avi -o
> /home/jlee/Video/Firefly/firefly.s01e05.safe.h300.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
> bitrate=256:max_bframes=0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128 -vf
> scale=220:120,expand=220:176,harddup -af volnorm,resample=44100 -ofps 10 -srate
> 44100
> 
> Is mencoder just unstable on Windows?  I wish I could provide more information.

No, it's not.  You should not ship binaries that you cannot test, for
one thing.  Second, you should try shipping a recent CVS version of
Mencoder.  Third, you should either reproduce the crash yourself and
send a bug report, or you should ship a binary that dumps a text log of
stdout.  Have your users send that log to you after a crash.  Publishing
and managing MPlayer binaries is not easy stuff, particularly when it
comes to getting your users to help you out.  Good luck.

--Joey

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