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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 08:44, Rich Felker wrote:
> > The bug was already fixed my Michael in ffmpeg CVS. Now lavc should
> > give an error and refuse to encode if B frame strategy is nonzero
> > during the second pass.
> Oh, I always thought both passes should always use *exactly* the same cmdline 
> options.  Does that mean it was my error to give vb_strategy=1 for the second 
> pass, too?  That'd be an evil trap. ;-)  I hope mplayer overwrites that 
> automatically in the future.  (Again, I am at work and can't check that right 
> now.)

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.

Rich