[MPlayer-users] Assertion failed

[James MS Anderson]

are you using the most recent version of mplayer?

I had similar problems, but after updating the encoding worked fine.

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:24, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> [ Sorry if you get this message twice, but it didn't seem to go through with 
> the full assertion message as the subject.  Guess it doesn't like <> signs in 
> there ;-) ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I keep getting this error during the second pass of a two-pass encode with 
> mencoder, and I don't know what it means.  I'm trying to encode an MPEG2 
> transport stream into a DivX AVI.
> 
> mencoder: ratecontrol.c:587: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion 
> `picture_number<rcc->num_entries' failed.
> 
> The full command line is:
> 
> mencoder -o output.avi -mc 0 -noskip -skiplimit 0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:trell:mbd=2:vmax_b_frames=1:v4mv:vb_strategy=0:vlelim=0:
> vcelim=0:cmp=2:subcmp=2:precmp=2:predia=1:dia=1:vme=4:aspect=4/3:
> vbitrate=1920:vpass=2 -vop crop=516:570:104:3 -oac pcm input.ts -ss 150 
> -frames 37000
> 
> It has worked fine with other files, but as these are being captured from a 
> digital TV card, they are quite likely to be corrupted at some points 
> throughout due to reception interference.  If this corruption is the cause of 
> the problem, is there any way around that error so I can at least encode the 
> file?
> 
> Please let me know if you need any more info.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam.
> 
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