[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder crash

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thursday 11 September 2003 07:20, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:49:07PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:01, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> > >>The crash happened right at the end of a movie or show, though not at
> > >>the end of the VOB, right? Did you concatenate a bunch of titles? I've
> > >>observed that the last chapter of a DVD title is usually empty. Maybe
> > >>it's just an end marker. I've also observed the crash you had, usually
> > >>right at the end of the movie. Coincidence? I don't think so.
> > >
> > >this may be "fixed" in latest ffmpeg developer cvs (= tomorrows ffmpeg
> > >annonymous cvs) allthough the correct fix would be to not reinit the
> > >encoder at all ...
> >
> > Do you know why mencoder feels it needs to reinitialize the encoder? Is
> > it some peculiarity of DVD VOBs, or just a mencoder peculiarity?
>
> It's not mencoder per se, but either vd_ffmpeg.c or libavcodec. For
> some reason it thinks something has changed in the stream which
> requires reinit, but reinit is broken in mencoder.
well, it cant be vd_ffmpeg.c or libavcodec (decoder) as this is happening with 
libmpeg2 decoder, i could reproduce the segfault yesterday, but nit anymore 
(after the patch to ffmpeg which detects double avcodec_open() and returns 
-1)

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