[MPlayer-users] Bug report for mencoder on DVB files...

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/2/06, George Styles <ripnetuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found a bug (assert failure) in mencoder.
>
> It would be good if someone could fix it, or alternatively tell me how to
> disable mmx2 support, as the error message implies the bug only hits in mmx2
> optimized version of the code... ive tried compiling with --disable-mmx2 but
> it still says its compiling with mmx2 optimization :(
>
> Info:
>
> 1. I am using CVS 20060301 of both MPLayer and ffmpeg. It also happens in
> the old version I was using (20051013) so the bug has been in at least since
> then.
>
> 2. I compiled with the following options:
> ./configure --enable-largefiles --cc=gcc32 --enable-debug=3
>
> 3. I have divX support.
>
> 4. The command which bombs out is
>
> mencoder bad.nuv -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128 -vf scale=320:240
> -sws 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=256 -ffourcc DIVX -o
> out.avi

Hehe, I've found a way to work around this bug: just append "-vfm
ffmpeg" to your command line.

For some reason, I thought that the problem was in the software
scaler, but in fact it's in libmpeg2.

I guess you must be thrilled to be able to encode your videos now :o)

Guillaume
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