[MPlayer-users] Re: (help) mencoder fails: FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:03:49AM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Jeff Clagg wrote:
> 
> > Apparently, the answer to your question is that you need to run a 1st
> > pass before you can run a 2nd pass.
> 
> Hi, Jeff.  I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused.  I got this mplayer command
> line from an iAudio forum and the poster said thats all you need to convert
> a DVD to the format the X5 can handle (which is XVID).
> 
> To quote him:
> 
> "LINUX (movies never stop or freeze with these settings, guess its
> vbitrate:100 and fps:14.985 which relievs the X5 cpu):
> 
> mencoder IN.avi -o OUT.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=96:vol=0
> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=100:vhq:vpass=2 -ffourcc XVID -vf
> scale=160:128 -ofps 14.985"
> 
> Is that just wrong or am I missing some other info (maybe in another post)?

Well you should probably use the correct framerate, 15000/1001...

Rich