[MPlayer-users] RFH: MEncoder Crash

[Eric Watson]

Corey, thanks for the response. However, as a technical professional,
might I suggest that you tone-down the arrogance/preaching. An improved
response to my original query could have been, "It's not a known bug,
but if you provided the following additional information: ????, we might
be able to help." (No flame intended). Better yet, if you were ignorant
on the subject, then no response at all would have been appropriate! The
entire issue is now moot, as another kind soul has been able to provide
the actual help that I was looking for.  Thanks again, Eric.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corey Hickey" <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org>
To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports"
<mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] RFH: MEncoder Crash


| Eric Watson wrote:
| > Give me a hint... What additional information is required? Eric.
|
| Don't consider any of these points to be flames. I can tell you're new
| to this sort of thing; however, you're going to have to do a little
more
| work on your own before you can get much help.
|
| 1. Top-posting is generally considered annoying on most technical
| mailing lists I'm aware of, and certainly on this one. Bottom posting
or
| interleaved posting is much better for preserving past discussion
where
| it is relevant.
| http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html
| http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html
|
| 2. Your mail client has fairly rotten quoting and rewrapping. I'd
ditch
| Outlook Express if I were you; otherwise, you might want to try this.
| http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
| That page also describes what I mean by "rotten quoting and
rewrapping".
|
| 3. I don't want to just repeat information in the documentation. Did
you
| read the page at the URL I sent in my last message? Take a look at the
| subsections that page links too, as well. If you have more specific
| questions then, feel free to ask them.
|
| 4. Here's a hint, though. Your initial message indicated that you were
| using MediaCoder, which appear to be a 3rd-party front-end to
mencoder.
| We don't have any objection to that, of course, but we're not going to
| debug a front-end. You need to find out the exact mencoder command
line
| that MediaCoder is using and use that to run mencoder directly and get
| the information requested in the documentation. I don't know how to
find
| the mencoder command line, since I've never used MediaCoder, but
chances
| are it gets printed in a status box somewhere; consult the MediaCoder
| documentation or ask on MediaCoder's mailing lists, forums, or
whatever
| user help community they have.
|
| -Corey
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