[MPlayer-advusers] Long-standing encoding bug: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `pict_type == rce->new_pict_type' failed

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:50:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:17:08AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:40:56PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, it's not your error snce it was never documented. Hopefully we
> > > can improve this better by automatically disabling it during the
> > > second pass or something, but at the very least it needs to be
> > > documented as a pass1-only option.
> > 
> > This is the current text:
> > 
> >   vb_strategy=<0-1>
> >     strategy to choose between I/P/B-frames (pass 1):
> >       0    Always use the maximum number of B-frames (default).
> >       1    Avoid B-frames in high motion scenes.
> > 
> > Am I correct in understanding that this option is for pass 1 _only_ and
> > that MEncoder will reject it in subsequent passes?
> 
> Ping.

I believe so. And by reject, I mean fatal error from lavc.

Rich