[MPlayer-users] "FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver" when running mencoder with -ovc lavc

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 29 Feb 2012, at 05:57, The Wanderer <wanderer at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 02:33 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:07:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>>> On 02/26/2012 01:33 AM, Mike Castle wrote:
> 
>>>> I just updated to head for the first time in months and am experiencing
>>>> this same problem.
>>> As am I. My last previous update (without the problem AFAIR) was r34473,
>>> from mid-December; if I get the time, I'll try to bisect, if I can work out
>>> how to get the libav* externals to match up properly.
>> Should be fixed now, that was just a check in MPlayer that had no reason to exist at all, needed only be removed.
> 
> Yep, seems to work fine now.
> 
> Thanks for the fix; it makes sense based on what I could figure out of the code,
> but I haven't been following the details of either MPlayer or FFmpeg development
> for some time now.
> 
> D'you happen to know when the switch that made this start failing took place? I
> had a quick look, but I couldn't spot an obviously relevant commit in the logs.

It's not one, it is one per codec. Look for commit messages like "switch to encode2".