[MPlayer-users] 0.90pre8 test.avi: error writing file

[Anish Mistry]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:07 pm, Anish Mistry wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm using mencoder to capture video from my tv card using xvid/divx4 and 
with 
> pre7 I get the following error:
> test.avi: error writing file.
> 
> Some other strange behavior is that it did work for a few tries after I 
copied 
> the etc/codecs.conf to ~/.mplayer again.  But stopped.  After trying to copy 
> the file again and retry mencoder failed with the same error.  One thing 
that 
> I did notice the couple times that it did start capturing, the bit rate was 
> absurdly high ~2000Kb, when with previous versions it would be ~800Kb.  The 
> video that was produced was distorted.
> I saw a similar email in the archive, but no one replied.
> 
> I'm using:
> 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Anish Mistry
> 

I've just tested pre8 and the same bug shows up.  Does anyone know what  might 
have changed in the xvid/divx4 or tv capture code to cause this?

 Thanks,

-- 
Anish Mistry