[MPlayer-users] Re-Encoding 200MB MPEG1 file to divx4 (br=628) fills hd

[Frederik Klama]

I was just trying out mencoder on a 200MB MPEG1 file, trying to convert it to 
divx4 (br=628). The file is ~1310s long and has 39287 frames.

For some reason though mencoder at first predicts that the file is going to be 
between 41GB and 71GB in size later it changes to -71GB constantly going up 
then going back to positive numbers and finally it seems to go down slowly 
towards a few hundred MB. The file it creates takes up the whole 4.67G of 
free space on the target drive though !!!

I have used the following line to start mencoder:
mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3 -ovc divx4 -divx4opts br=628:q=1 -o 
target.avi source.MPG

Could it be that mencoder needs more than 4.67G ? If so is there any way to 
find out how much it needs ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I have appended the output generated by mencoder as a textfile.
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MEncoder CVS-020405-04:00-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 30 audio & 80 video codecs
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 2
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Type: 6, Stepping: 3)
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Not an URL!
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Not an URL!
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0xC9CCD58
header block 1 size: 0
Detected MPEG-PS file format!
VIDEO:  MPEG1  352x240  (aspect 12)  29.97 fps  1437.5 kbps (179.7 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2  fourcc:0x10000001  size:352x240  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening Video Decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240, Mpeg PES
Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening Video Decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240, Planar YV12
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
vo.config(352 x 240, Planar YV12) called!
Detected video codec: [mpeg12] drv:1 prio:0 (MPEG 1 or 2)
==========================================================================
x0: 0 y0: 0 crop_width: 352 crop_height: 240
Detected audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
Selecting Audio Decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
CPU vendor name: GenuineIntel  max cpuid level: 2
CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Type: 6, Stepping: 3)
Testing OS support for SSE... yes.
Testing OS support for SSE unmasked exceptions... yes.
Tests of OS support for SSE passed.
mp3lib: made decode tables with MMX optimization
init layer2&3 finished, tables done
mp3lib: using MMX optimized decore!
MPEG 1.0, Layer II, 44100 Hz 128 kbit Stereo, BPF: 418
Channels: 2, copyright: No, original: No, CRC: No, emphasis: 0
AUDIO: srate=44100  chans=2  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 16000->176400
MP3 audio selected
Writing AVI header...
*** Allocating mp_image_t, 352x240x12bpp YUV planar, 126720 bytes
*** Allocating mp_image_t, 352x240x12bpp YUV planar, 126720 bytes:0]
*** Allocating mp_image_t, 352x240x12bpp YUV planar, 126720 bytes:0]
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Broken frame at 0x13FCA20
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Writing AVI index...
Fixup AVI header...

Video stream: 4406.021 kbit/s  (550752 bps)  size: 721420288 bytes  1309.881 secs  39287 frames

Audio stream:   83.999 kbit/s  (10499 bps)  size: 13759061 bytes  1310.406 secs

*** free_stream() called ***