[MPlayer-users] mencoder bus error

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Sun Mar 21 17:50:09 CET 2004


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Gina Capodanno wrote:
> >>Are you using -ffourcc? Out of curiosity, may I ask why >you're setting
> > it to XVID?
> > 
> > i admit that i am new to this, and not a skilled user of terminal apps.
> > i have been relying on the GUIs available for os X (such as the basic
> > one for mencoder, and dvdibbler). as for your question, i'm not
> > /purposefully/ setting anything to XVID. the video codec is selected for
> > divX4. when i rip anything anywhere from the start of the movie up to
> > the second to last chapter, it doesn't display this (/ideocodec:
> > libavcodec (718x468 fourcc=58564944 [XVID]). /it only does so when i get
> > to the end of the movie.
> > 
> 
> Yes, this particular bug was triggered at the very end of encodes. As
> for the fourcc, perhaps your gui just doesn't show you the output of
> mencoder unless there's a problem, and normally you don't see the fourcc
> line. The GUI wrapper shouldn't be forcing a fourcc of XVID for
> libavcodec encodes; I don't know why it's doing that.

IMO the new OpenDML code for big endian is broken. It tries to
endian-convert nonaligned fields improperly.

Rich




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