On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Mark Williams (MWP) wrote: MWM>Ok, thanks. MWM>Looks like ill need to do some testing myself. If you want to encode with high quality - definitely. MWM>> After those changes (also without them) the above string works for me, MWM>> but I'm using mplayer 1.0pre4 & cvs libavcodec. Are you sure you are MWM>> actually encoding video, you need to use "-ovc lavc" instead of "-ovc MWM>> copy"? Btw, in future always report complete command line. MWM> MWM>Where is 1.0pre4 avaliable from? And also, is therea page somewhere Hm.. As I see, it's not listed on the download page, I have cvs version, and the bottom of changelog says: pre4: "New Year Release" MWM>giving the details to get the cvs libavcodec? ffmpeg.sf.net. After that, do cp -r ffmpeg/libavcodec main/ However, _your_ problem is most likely related to something else, so updating mplayer & libavcodec won't help you as is and not really required. It isn't bad thing to do, though. -- Vladimir