[MPlayer-users] 'Failed to open scale=320:240' error

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 27 January 2007 at 23:36, ying lcs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use 'mencoder' to scale a video file, here is my command
> 
> ./mencoder ~/videos/transformer.mov -ovc lavc -oac lavc scale=320:240
> -o output.avi
> 
> But i get an error saying 'Failed to open scale=320:240', can you
> please tell me why is that?
> And i have tried other scale, e.g. 160:120, it results in the same error:
> 
> Error while decoding frame!3.34fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.030 [812:224]
> File not found: 'scale=320:240'fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.019 [795:224]
> Failed to open scale=320:240.
> Cannot open file/device.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.

You told mencoder to encode files "~/videos/transformer.mov" and "scale=320:240".
Since the latter doesn't exist, apparently, the error message is proper.

I'm guessing you meant "-vf scale=320:240".

Regards,
R.

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