[MPlayer-users] Why is it "Skipping frame!"s?

[Corey Hickey]

Matthias Czapla wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Just out of curiosity I wonder whats causing mencoder to skip frames (the
> resulting AVI plays fine) 
> 
> $ nice -19 mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc \
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=509:vpass=$i \
> -sws 2 -vf crop=672:316:24:130,scale=544:240 \
> -dvd-device some_dvd_image.bin dvd://1
> 
> MEncoder 1.0pre3-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 1094 MHz (Family: 6,
> Stepping: 6)
> Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> 
> Reading /home/lal/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/home/lal/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> AVI file format detected.
> VIDEO:  [FrNo]  720x576  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.8 kbps ( 0.1 kbyte/s)
> Using pass3 control file: frameno.avi

Do you still have the same problem if you use 2-pass (or 1-pass) instead
of 3-pass? I never use 3-pass myself, but as far as I understand from
reading this list, 3-pass encoding is in a state of
"rather-broken-even-though-it-works-some-of-the-time".

-Corey