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

[Robos]

On Sun, 05.10.03, D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, ok, but I tried and the situation was this that the resulting movie had
to play under win, linux and mac AND in acrobat... This is for distribution
along a doctor thesis and the users need a simple installer...
Anyway, should mencoder segfault?
Thanks
Robos

> Rich