[MEncoder-users] lavc doesn't work for me

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 10 January 2005 at 05:06, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:31:24AM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:38:38PM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > > Also, it would be nice if there were some sort of warning on the web
> > > page and in the documentation about the general instability of
> > > mencoder. The documentation isn't very clear
> > 
> > there is no general instability. you're definitely doing something
> > dumb/broken, and you haven't provided enough info for us to have any
> > idea what... obviously no one else has this problem.
> 
> Yep, I was doing something wrong. I didn't realize mplayer and
> mencoder came in different packages, I guess I was using an old
> mencoder. Things seem to work now. Sorry to be a luser, thanks for
> your hard work. You could have asked for more info though.. - I *did*
> spend several hours reading the manual and trying different options on
> different inputs. ;)

Well, that's what you get for not providing all important information
in your mail (like mencoder -v output).

[...]
> > > 20% of the time for me. I think it would be considerate to say "stay
> > > away, newbies" on the web page so people don't get trapped reading the
> > > manual over and over and wondering what they did wrong when they
> > > encounter one of the many bugs.
> > 
> > i'm sorry for being so rude, bit it gets annoying when users keep
> > accusing us of having bugs without sending a valid bug report. if you
> > did send a valid report it would probably show what you're doing wrong
> > and then someone might help.
> 
> Well, if this is a widespread problem, maybe you could include a bug
> report generating script...

And you should learn not to quote kilobytes of text below your replies.
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Regards,
R.

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