[MPlayer-users] lavc codec not detected with mencoder

[alex at foogod.com]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:52:05PM +0200, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> running mencoder -ovc reports that lavc codec is available but encoding
> doesn't. Now with -ovc help:

You need to read the messages more carefully (admittedly, Mplayer's message
spew isn't the easiest thing to read through)..

[...]
> No libavcodec codec specified! It's required!
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Couldn't open video filter 'lavc'
> Failed to open the encoder
> Exiting...

You need to tell lavc which of its codecs it should be using.

-alex