[MPlayer-users] Some problems with subtitles and other thing

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:11:45PM +0100, Nicolas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Le 11/02/2003 07:52 PM, D Richard Felker III a joliment écrit :
> 
> >>>Opening video filter: [scale]
> >>>The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> >>>VDecoder init failed :(
> 
> >
> >This is NOT an error. It tries mpeg _passthrough_ (!!!!!!!) first and
> >sees that you're not trying to play video on a hardware mpeg decoder
> >board, so then it falls back to libmpeg2. Very simple if you bother to
> >_read_ the messages!
> 
> Thanks.
> Is it a way to tell mencoder than I have not hardware decoder ?

There's no reason to do this. Look at the output. As soon as mpegpes
fails, it uses libmpeg2 instead. No problem!

Rich