[MPlayer-users] Mencoder hanging on 2nd pass xvid

[Richard H Lee]

On 03/12/11 00:58, Richard H Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mencoder to do a 2 pass transcode from h264 to xvid, but it 
> always hangs on
>
> mencoder Frozen_Planet_-_5._Winter_b00zj35r_default.mp4 -o video.mp4 
> -nosound -ovc xvid -vf yadif,scale=656:370 -xvidencopts 
> bitrate=1000:chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:quant_type=mpeg:max_bframes=1:pass=2
>
> The 1st pass works fine.
>
>
> Richard
It was a problem with xvidcore building with the mno-cygwin flag. I 
think it had problems using win32 functions to read from the log file.