[MPlayer-users] mencoder problem

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:02:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Bohdan Horst wrote:
> 
> >FreeBSD 5.4 (2 different hosts)
> >
> >MEncoder dev-CVS-051020-10:40-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> >CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron 4 Northwood; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon 
> >Prestonia,Gallatin (Family: 15, Stepping: 7)
> >Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> >CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> >Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> >
> >MEncoder dev-CVS-051021-01:30-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> >CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Prescott; Pentium D/XE Smithfield; Xeon 
> >Nocona,Irwindale (Family: 15, Stepping: 1)
> >Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> >CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> >Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
> >
> >and:
> >
> >mencoder -ovc help
> >[...]
> >Option ovc: Unknown suboption hel
> >
> >mencoder -oac help
> >[...]
> >Option oac: Unknown suboption hel
> >
> >mencoder -oac copy
> >[...]
> >Option oac: Unknown suboption cop
> >
> >mencoder -ovc copy
> >[...]
> >Option ovc: Unknown suboption cop
> >
> >mencoder -xvidencopts bitrate=1000:vhq=4
> >[...]
> >Option xvidencopts: Unknown suboption bitrat
> 
> As ((name)) noted, this is a known problem, and a fix is in progress 
> (although I don't recall it being committed yet), but - are you 
> absolutely sure that you're using the very latest CVS version? I just 
> updated and compiled (with distclean), and I get:

It depends on your os. It works with a broken OS that lacks strl*
functions, where the mplayer versions of them get used (which are
incidentally incorrect and insecure, from what I can tell). It fails
if you have a correct OS that implements the (POSIX- and C99-required)
strl* functions.

Rich