[MPlayer-users] Problems encoding with crop

[Pete Ashdown]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:57:23PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> > mencoder input.mpg -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
> >  vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vbitrate=1200:v4mv:trell:autoaspect:mbd=2 \
> >  -vf crop=706:440:8:68 -ofps 25 -o output.avi
> 
> Although this is not your problem, final size before encoding should
> ALWAYS be multiples of 16 in both dimensions.

Apparently it was my problem.  Would it be prudent for mencoder to check this
before wasting time encoding?

> This error output is definitely not complete. It's been cut and it's
> missing -v!!!

I cut out what I thought was irrelevant.  If you'd like, I could send you the
complete output with -v, but I solved the problem as stated in the prior
message.