[MPlayer-users] cmp/subcmp/precmp failure

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:53:13PM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> DRFI>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> DRFI>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:56:49PM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> DRFI>> I thought about uploading this vob file, but it's so huuuge and I have
> DRFI>> only a modem connection. It happens on 6'th minute, is it possible to
> DRFI>> cut a fragment from vob file?
> DRFI>
> DRFI>Just guess the byte range and cut it out with dd. Make sure the crash
> DRFI>still happens with it cut, too!
> 
> Thanks, I made a 512k-chunk. I'll upload it with comment soon.
> 
> I noted another strange thing. I cropped video to size 704:434; I
> thought that maybe that happens because 434 can't be divided by 4,
> changed it to 432 - and everything worked fine. But that wasn't
> acceptable - when cropping 432, an ugly flashing colored bar appears in
> the last line (can anybody explain, why?), so I tried rescaling. I
> scaled to 704:400 - the numbers are perfect, but... crash again. There
> are also other positions in the movie were mplayer crashes the same way.

You might want to send a report to ffmpeg-devel list. Most of the lavc
developers don't read this list, and I expect if there's a bug it's in
lavc, not mencoder.

Rich