[MPlayer-users] MEncoder CVS Issues

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:40:54PM -0500, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
> this would be the second time that I've submitted this problem to the  
> mailing list. The first time, I got no responses, so I'm hoping this  
> time would be different.
> 
> About two nights ago (or so), I compiled the MPlayer CVS code on my  
> Apple iBook G4 running Mac OS X (10.4.1). I compiled with GCC4 and  
> with AltiVec support. MPlayer is fully functional, but mencoder is  
> not. mencoder is completely broken. What follows below is my error:
> 
> Tenshi:~ ivan$ /usr/local/bin/mencoder
> MEncoder dev-CVS-050527-21:31-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> AltiVec found
> CPU: PowerPC
> File not found: 'frameno.avi'
> Failed to open frameno.avi
> 
> parse error at line 1
> Option @ needs a parameter at line 2
> parse error at line 5
> parse error at line 6
> parse error at line 7
> Option 5 needs a parameter at line 8
> parse error at line 9
> parse error at line 10
> parse error at line 11
> Option UH needs a parameter at line 12
> Option 8@ needs a parameter at line 13
> parse error at line 15
> parse error at line 16
> parse error at line 17
> parse error at line 18
> Option P|] needs a parameter at line 19
> too many errors
> 
> Exiting... (configfile error)

Yes, the problem is that you put the mencoder binary in .mplayer
directory, and thus it's trying to parse mencoder as a config file.
Or...maybe some idiot modified it to look for config files in other
places (such as the binary dir) on Mac?? :(

Rich