[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question regarding BFrame problem with lavf muxer.

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:56:19AM -0700, DD DD wrote:
> I am trying to use mencoder to create flv files.
> 
> I recently checked out the latest source tree (1.0 pre8), but realized that
> B-Frame support is broken in that, and get the
> i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames message while trying to
> encode the video.
> 
> This was the same error even in pre7. It works in a really old version of
> mencoder that I have.

It has never worked. Really old versions just lacked any protection,
meaning that you would create hopelessly broke, _unusable_ files
without knowing it.

Simply disable B frames and you'll be fine.

Rich