[MPlayer-dev-eng] mencoder.c (1.94) bug: "-lavcopts vbitrate=XXX"

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Sep 17 02:02:38 CEST 2002


On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:09:01AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I can confirm that with mencoder (that comes with Mplayer version 0.90pre6
> > , I just got preso I haven't tested yet), as well as CVS right before pre6
> > , whatever AVI I encoded (mostly MPEG4, or reencoded MSMPEG4 AVIS (i kept
> > the video stream intact, and reencoded the PCM audio into CBR MP3 with
> > meencoder), they are "broke" as far as WinXP's Media Player 8.x is concerned!!!
> > 
> > The funny thing is that Win9x Media Player 6.x (to be specific version
> > 6.01.05.0217, which is not the latest from M$), plays these AVI's JUST fine!!
> > Also note that on WinXP the player from Divx5.x (www.divx.com) playz the
> > said AVI's just fine. So it's something between mencoder's output and M$
> > Media Player 8.x (and I assume 7.x as it's the same piece of shit software
> > as far as I can tell) 
> 
> great. and where is the patch?

The patch? I was wondering more where this guy's return key was.
Apparently it's missing from his keyboard, arrg!

Rich




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