[MPlayer-users] Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. ???

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:23:02PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello,
> i'm trying to convert a dvd to divx using the 3 pass method.  i noticed this 
> in the output from mencoder during the second pass:
> Sorry, selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> 
> what does that mean?  its printed to stderr instead of stdout, so i assume its 
> important.
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> Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1  (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (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 :(

The lavc encoder "device" is not compatible with mpeg pes passthrough,
since it's not a hardware mpeg1/2 decoder card...

> Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
> libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
> libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation

...so the next decoder in line, libmpeg2, is tried instead and works
fine. Are the messages really that difficult to understand? Perhaps
they should be improved.


Rich