[MPlayer-users] xvid + mencoder broken ?

[Martin Hoffmann]

Somehow interesting: The output.avi file grows while mencoder works on frame 
number 1  ! This takes several seconds ! After that more or less "normal" 
encoding begins - and as usual around 20 frames per second are processed 
(quite normal on my Athlon 1800) - But frame 1 creates the huge file ! 
Sometimes several GB in size !

I cannot understand why ...

Martin.

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> i try to upgrade my xvid + mencoder to todays cvs - however it seems that
> mplayer/mencoder ain't compatible to xvid anymore ?
>
> Somehow compiling like the docs chapter 2.2.1.9 say doesn't make configure
> detect xvid - so i use the "old" way by using divx4.h from xvid as
> encore2.h and decore2.h and symlink libxvidcore.so as libdivxdecore.so and
> libdivxencore.so !
> This way xvid is detected as Divx4 and mplayer compiles just fine !
>
> However when i use mencoder to encode to xvid (using divx4 interface) the
> output file grows very large (sometimes  ~1 GB per Minute video - i had)
> and the final output file contains very strange colors and flickers - so
> there goes something very wrong i guess :(
>
> This seems to be version independend of xvid, however with mplayer cvs from
> 01 June 2002 everything worked and still does work with current xvid !!! So
> it seems to be a "bug" in mplayer !?
>
> Is this already a known bug, or have i done something wrong for current cvs
> of mplayer (e.g. did the install method change ???) - if not i will provide
> a proper bug report if you request it !
>
> Martin
>
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