[MPlayer-users] Mencoder segfaults with DivX4

[Tim U.]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:06:41PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:00, Thomas Larsen wrote:
> [...]
> > Below is the output from Mencoder.
> >
> > hest:/data # cat anden/*.vob | mencoder -oac copy -ovc divx4 -divx4opts
> > br=700 -x 576 -y 433 -sws 1 -o anden.avi -pass 1 -
>                 ^^^^^^
> divx4 seems to be buggy, it cant handle sizees which are not divisable 
> through 2

Isn't it because MPEG codecs divide the picture into 16x16 blocks 
(or is it 32x16? or different for different MPEG versions or 
something..) anyway I always use multiples of 16 and never have 
any problems with that.

   - Tim