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

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 03:12:08PM -0500, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> python -c "print 15000/1001.0"
> 14.985014985
> 
> 14.985 isn't close enough?
> 
> Either way, Jeff was right.  I'm still confused why the poster on
> iaudiophile.net would post that command line with "vpass=2" as the command
> to rip a DVD into whatever the X5 requires.
> 
> Heh, I have audio/video sync probs now...but thats the subject of another
> post...=)

You should use -vf scale=160:128,harddup

Giacomo