[MPlayer-users] Mplayer segmentation fault with large images

[Giacomo Comes]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:22:05PM +0000, Matt wrote:
> I have an image sequence captured on a digital camera. The images are 3008x2000
> pixels. If I try to encode them to a video file with this:
> 
> mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2
> -oac copy -o output.avi
> 
> I get a segmentation fault.
> 
> If I use imagemagick and scale them to 50% then the encoding works. I wondered
> if there was a way round this. The problem is that I want to keep the original
> images  and make a small reference movie from them using a script on a server. I
> don't want ot have to create smaller images and save them somewhere and then
> encode them and delete them once they have been encoded. 

Try using -vf scale=x:y in order to reduce the size of the video.
Sometimes I have seen that -vc ijpg helps too.

Giacomo