[MPlayer-users] (NOVIRUS)Why do I keep getting this messege. "File not found: 'frameno.avi'"

Sun Sep 21 15:13:38 CEST 2003

On Sunday, 21 September 2003, Sungjong Woo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I am trying to make a mpeg file from tga files using mencoder.
> In order to do that I installed MPlayer and mencoder on my Linux.
> MPlayer works OK but I couldn't make mencoder functioning only to get
> following messages:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the command I used:
> 
> mencoder *.tga -mf on:type=tga -of mpeg -ovc rawrgb -o out.mpeg
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> These are the messages I got:
> 
> MEncoder 0.91-RPM-3.1  (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
> 
> CPU: Intel Celeron A Mendocino/Pentium II Dixon (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
> Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Reading /home/sjwoo/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
> '/home/sjwoo/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
> 
> File not found: 'frameno.avi'   <<<===  WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??????
>                                        (THIS IS MY MAIN CONCERNING)

As long as you're not doing pass three of the three-pass encoding method,
there's no need to worry.

> Reading config file /home/sjwoo/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or
> directory
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x41EC2
> ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
> =============
> === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author!
> ===
> Cannot open demuxer.
> Exiting...

There's no support for encoding from tga images. Use gif, png or jpeg.

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