[MPlayer-users] [BUG] lavc error - 2pass curve failed to converge

[Corey Hickey]

vitko wrote:
> 2 pass lavc encoding fails with current SVN, I'm getting following
> on second pass:
> 
> ...
> videocodec: libavcodec (720x576 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
> [mpeg4 @ 0xbf80d0]Error: 2pass curve failed to converge
> Could not open codec.
> ...
> 
> Commands used were (stripped to bare minimum? from "hi-quality", but
> still producing the error):
> 
> $ mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device . -nosound -ovc lavc \
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -frames 500 -o /dev/null
> $ mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device . -nosound -ovc lavc \
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -frames 500 -o rctest.avi
> 
> It's too late and maybe I missed something.

Did you try reverting ffmpeg r5422 like I suggested (in an off-list 
discussion) yesterday?

Giacomo, try this with the attached patch:
$ cd .../mplayer/libavcodec
$ patch -p2 -R < /tmp/ffmpeg_r5422.eml

I don't know if that will work -- only that it caused me some similar 
problems a while ago.

-Corey
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