[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder crash

[Jonathan Rogers]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:01, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
>>The crash happened right at the end of a movie or show, though not at
>>the end of the VOB, right? Did you concatenate a bunch of titles? I've
>>observed that the last chapter of a DVD title is usually empty. Maybe
>>it's just an end marker. I've also observed the crash you had, usually
>>right at the end of the movie. Coincidence? I don't think so.
> 
> this may be "fixed" in latest ffmpeg developer cvs (= tomorrows ffmpeg 
> annonymous cvs) allthough the correct fix would be to not reinit the encoder 
> at all ...

Do you know why mencoder feels it needs to reinitialize the encoder? Is 
it some peculiarity of DVD VOBs, or just a mencoder peculiarity?

Jonathan Rogers