[MPlayer-users] Bugs r.e. xvid

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With both pre8 and CVS-021021-00:00-3.0.4 the following bugs persist. 
This did not happen in pre6 at all, which still works. 

Configured to use xvid, mencoder does not work. 
If mplayer can play IN.avi just fine, then

$ mencoder IN.avi -ovc divx4 -oac copy -divx4opts br=1600:key=250 -o OUT.avi
fails immediately, leaving an empty file, with the following error output 
.[FULL output below at [*1]
.
Writing AVI header...
tst.avi: error writing file.0fps Trem:   0min 713mb  A-V:0.007 [0:0]
Exiting...
.
.

However, if I try 
$ mencoder IN.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -divx4opts br=1600:key=250 -o OUT.avi
it works fine. It seems to be a problem with utilization of xvid.

Also, 

$ mencoder  -dvd 1 -ovc divx4 -oac mp3lame -divx4opts br=1400:key=250 -lameopts br=64:cbr -o $TITLE

Does NOT crash as above, but instead produces a severely corrupt/distorted
.avi that is esentially unwatchable/useless. Extremely blocky/staticy, HORRIBLE quality. 
If I run the old pre6 mencoder, it still works fine. 
I have even tried recompiling both of them, in case something had gone wrong with my
xvid headers or somesuch. Fresh compiles of pre6 work, pre8 is fscked up. 

I am using gcc-3.0.4. 

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/--[*1]--Full output of first error, where mencoder actually crashes-----------------------------
|  [unt at ever w]$ ~/packages/MPlayer-20021021/mencoder \
|  /ahuge/root/w/fiona/music_videos.G/Fiona_Apple_-acrosstheuniverse.mpg \
|  -ovc divx4 -oac copy -divx4opts br=1600:key=250 -o tst.avi
|  
|  Using GNU internationalization
|  Original domain: messages
|  Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
|  Current domain: mplayer
|  Current dirname: /home/unt/local/APP/MPlayer-20021021/share/locale
|  
|  
|  MEncoder CVS-021021-00:00-3.0.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)
|  
|  CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
|  CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
|  Reading /home/unt/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs
|  File not found: 'frameno.avi'
|  Font /home/unt/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
|  success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x2A7F9FC
|  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 audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
|  AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
|  Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
|  ==========================================================================
|  Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
|  Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
|  ==========================================================================
|  Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
|  VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
|  Couldn't find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
|  Opening video filter: [scale]
|  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 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
|  VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
|  Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
|  Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2)
|  ==========================================================================
|  audiocodec: framecopy (format=50 chans=2 rate=44100 bits=16 bps=28000 sample=1)
|  Writing AVI header...
|  tst.avi: error writing file.0fps Trem:   0min 713mb  A-V:0.007 [0:0]
|  Exiting...
|  [unt at ever w]$ 
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