[MPlayer-users] -x264encopts is not an MEncoder option

[Lobster]

  On 4/09/2010 1:11 a.m., Albert Scholtalbers wrote:
>  Hi there,
>
>  I can't seem to get X264 working on a new machine. I've installed the
>  lastest version of Mplayer using their instructions

Who is "their"?

>  I use the command: mencoder /home/henk/video.ts -vf
>  pp=ci,scale=704:400,harddup -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=650 -oac
>  mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=112 -o /home/henk/result.avi
>
>  I've also installed X264 from /home/henk doing cd mplayer sudo
>  apt-get install git-core git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
>  cd x264 ./configure make
>
>  Something seems still missing. Any clues?
>

If you run `mencoder -ovc help`  is x264 listed?

You need to have x264 compiled and installed before you run configure on
and build your MPlayer/MEncoder with support for it.