[MPlayer-users] mplayer won't play what I mencoder ed

[John Brown]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:56:46 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
>
> John Brown wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 09:31:46 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
>>> Trying to do mpg+=jpg, but I can't even make a useable mpg. (when I try to add
>>> a 2nd jpg, mencoder errors, and I am trying to debug that, which lead me to this.)
>>>
>>> ++ mencoder mf://071103100100.jpg -mf type=jpeg -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>>> vcodec=mpeg2video:cmp=2:subcmp=2:mbd=2:trell:vqscale=31: -of mpeg -ofps 30 -vf
>>> harddup -o q1.mpg
>>>
>>
>> MPlayer cannot play a file that has only one frame. I believe that it needs at least 3.
>
> 10 did the trick: mencoder mf://071103100?00.jpg...
>
> Ok, so does mencoder have a similar restriction?
>
> Carl K

I don't think so. Windows Media Player can play my 1-frame MPEG produced by MEncoder.
By the way, are you taking pictures at 30 fps?
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