[MPlayer-users] mencoder neglects -nosound when noframe.avi is present

[José M. Fandiño]

yes, I'm having exactly the same problem. Something change between pre5
and pre6. I'm using -aoc copy -o /dev/null.

regards,

Frank Boehme wrote:
> 
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi gang,
> 
> I am not sure if I am allowed to post w/o subscribing first...
> 
> Anyways, this is about the latest pre-release, i.e. v0.90pre6. It's
> excellent work, btw. For example, the new realcodecs support make real
> movies look even better than with realplayer, because of hw scaling and
> postprocessing (at least under xv output).
> 
> I encountered the following problem with mencoder. Apologies if it is
> already known but I didn't find it mentioned in the mailing list
> archives: Suppose I am encoding in 3 pass mode. So after the first pass
> I have the sound as frameno.avi in the CWD. The dox suggest to copy this
> sound into the output of the next as well as the final pass. No problem,
> this works.
> 
> But when I try to encode the second pass (before the final) with
> -nosound, then mencoder still insists on specifying an audio codec
> because it sees noframe.avi and wants to copy it in the output file
> (which is anyway /dev/null in my case). So I have to temporarily move or
> rename this file before starting the 2nd pass, otherwise I keep getting
> an error msg saying that I should specify an audio codec or -nosound (I
> did the latter!). Is this a feature or a bug?
> 
> Also, I would like to know if there are any drawbacks with -nosound in
> the second pass. I just do that because I believe it saves some time.
> Does this affect the information stored in the logfile for use in pass
> 3?
> 
> All thoughts are welcome. Please cc to my email address as i am
> currently not subscribed.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Frank
> 
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