[MPlayer-users] ERROR: mencoder may not support libx264.so

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:48:36PM +0000, mplayer-users at lists.boehmi.net wrote:
> Nicolas George wrote:
> > Le quartidi 14 brumaire, an CCXX, Thomas Boehm a écrit :
> >> one of the latest updates broke my encoding jobs in MythTV. I'm trying
> >> to encode recordings to mkv and get the following error
> >>
> >> mencoder may not support libx264.so
> > 
> > Complete and exact command line and output please.
> 
> Sorry, I thought this error comes from mplayer. Now I've seen that it
> comes from the encoderscript (mythnuv2mkv). It appears after that
> command line
> 
> ldd /usr/bin/mencoder | grep -i libxx264.....
> 
> which returns nothing. Does that mean that x264 support is not compiled in?

Apart from that typo, that is just nonsense, libx264 can be linked in
statically or ldd might not be installed or...
I'd suggest not using that script, because bad decisions come rarely
alone and kind of check is a really bad one.