[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: vd_libmpeg2: change in video parameters causes mencoder to core-dump

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:17:16PM +0200, Peter Niemayer wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> >reiniting the encoder is problematic, for example it will break 2pass rc, 
> >and changing aspect / resolution / whatever in the middle of a video will 
> >probably break many players and is probably not allowed in many video 
> >standards, furthermore for formats which use a global header to store the 
> >res/aspect, or which dont encode the aspect / res at all in the video 
> >stream it simply wont work [...]
> 
> So it seems reasonable to just avoid any kind of re-initialization when
> encoding.
> 
> Is there some global variable or alike that would allow one to detect
> whether vd_libmpeg2.c code is running for mplayer or mencoder?
> 
> If so, I'd just propose a patch that disables re-inits for mencoder.

I think it's already been fixed in CVS, by making ve_lavc ignore
multiple inits.

Rich