[MPlayer-dev-eng] "Solution" to bugreport

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:22:33PM +0200, Robos wrote:
> Hi Developers!
> I recently posted a bugreport to -users but nobody looked at it :(
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-September/037519.html
> Anyway, shortly after I found the reason why it segfaulted. The size of the
> video is 639x479 due to a small mistake in corel and obviously something in
> mencoder doesn't like it. I haven't checked again since a small scaling in
> advance does the trick but I *suspect* that the bug is still there.
> I think an error message indicating that the size has to be at least
> dividable by 2 (or power of 2?) should be added.

This is a bug in divx, which you should NOT be using. Libavcodec
generates files which are much higher quality and completely
compatible.

Rich