[MPlayer-users] [BUG] mencoder coredump during lavc encoding

[Stephen Mollett]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 12:50, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote:
> I've tried to encode a movie and mencoder crashed.
> ...
> === Pass 1 ===
> ...
> knife.avi: Error writing file.ps Trem: 251min   0mb  A-V:0.061 [939:128]
> === Pass 2 ===
> ...
> mencoder: ratecontrol.c:618: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion
> `picture_number<rcc->num_entries' failed. mencode.sh: line 23: 10575
> ...
> I suspect, the reason is that during the first pass "Error writing file."
> occured and during the second pass bad statistics resulted in coredump.

That would seem to be a likely cause.

> I don't know why mencoder could not write the file. Drive was full at the
> moment during the first pass,

Then that was probably why it couldn't write the file.

Have you tried re-running it since freeing up space?

Stephen