[MPlayer-users] MPEG encoding hangs

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:18:41 Thomas Ruedas ha scritto:
> Hi,
> I was trying to encode a sequence of PNG images into an MPEG movie (rather 
> than the default AVI) and found that mencoder hangs when writing the 
> index. The movie file is created with a size of 4096 k, and mencoder gets 
> to the point of writing the index, but then nothing happens anymore, and 
> the process has to be killed with option -9 in order to get back to the 
> prompt. Has anyone found a similar problem or am I doing something wrong? 
> Command line and output are below.
> Thomas
> 

svn update, recompile with --enable-debug and make, then
run mencoder in gdb and ^C when it hangs; the output of bt
should say what mencoder is doing when it hangs