[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: mencoder under Windows

[Goran Katavić]

Try my binaries which are part of elcMovieTools
(http://elc.info/elcmovietools/)
It doesn't have xvid and ogg/vorbis support yet
but I hope I have solved problems with crashing. 

Goran Katavic
elc at point.hr 

> I hope that the following question is not off-topic.  I tried earlier to use
> mencoder-1.0pre5 (mingw binary distribution) and found that it crashes
> depending on what options I call it with.  Is this a problem that is
> particular to the binary distribution that I've used? Will I have better
> luck if I compile it myself using cygwin? I'm using Windows XP professional
> SP1, but I'm planning to upgrade to SP2. I'm also wondering if it will help
> to upgrade to DirectX 9.0. If it is in fact possible to do a two-pass
> encoding from dvd to mpeg4 with mencoder under Windows I would like to know
> that in advance. 
> 
> Elef 
>