[MPlayer-users] Ubuntu 14.04 mencoder crash

[Notes Jonny]

Hello

I wonder if anyone else is seeing mencoder crash on Ubuntu?

I'm really struggling to find any program that can convert, and keep
the quality. ffmpeg makes it all blured.

Cheers, Jonny


jonny at ubuntu1404:~$ mencoder email.ogv -ovc x264 -nosound -o output.avi
MEncoder 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x36f9e5c
libavformat version 54.20.4 (external)
Mismatching header version 54.20.3
libavformat file format detected.
[ogg @ 0x7fdb5b0dd600]22 bytes of comment header remain
[ogg @ 0x7fdb5b0dd600]truncated comment header, 1 comments not found
[ogg @ 0x7fdb5b0dd600]max_analyze_duration reached
[lavf] stream 1: video (theora), -vid 0
VIDEO:  [theo]  1280x720  0bpp   -nan fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:44  fourcc:0x6F656874  size:1280x720  fps: -nan  ftime:=  -nan
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.35.0 (external)
Selected video codec: [fftheora] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Theora)
==========================================================================
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0x7fdb5b333640]using unscaled yuv420p -> yuv420p special converter
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX
x264 [info]: profile High, level 3.1
Pos:  -nans      2f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
Pos:  -nans     55f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16:9.
Floating point exception (core dumped)



this is with lavc, a different problem

jonny at ubuntu1404:~$ mencoder email.ogv -ovc lavc -nosound -o output.avi
MEncoder 1.1-4.8 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x36f9e5c
libavformat version 54.20.4 (external)
Mismatching header version 54.20.3
libavformat file format detected.
[ogg @ 0x7f712d5f8600]22 bytes of comment header remain
[ogg @ 0x7f712d5f8600]truncated comment header, 1 comments not found
[ogg @ 0x7f712d5f8600]max_analyze_duration reached
[lavf] stream 1: video (theora), -vid 0
VIDEO:  [theo]  1280x720  0bpp   -nan fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:44  fourcc:0x6F656874  size:1280x720  fps: -nan  ftime:=  -nan
libavcodec version 54.35.0 (external)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [fftheora] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Theora)
==========================================================================
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1280x720 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
[mpeg4 @ 0x7f712cd50b00]framerate not set
Could not open codec.
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1280x720 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4])
[mpeg4 @ 0x7f712cd50b00]framerate not set
Could not open codec.
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Exiting...