[MPlayer-users] "FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver" when running mencoder with -ovc lavc

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Tue Feb 28 20:33:03 CET 2012


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:07:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 02/26/2012 01:33 AM, Mike Castle wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:19 AM, SmackleFunky Houston
> ><mplayer at smacklefunky.org> wrote:
> >
> >>I am trying to run mencoder as below, however it simply causes an error as
> >>shown.
> >
> >I just updated to head for the first time in months and am experiencing this
> >same problem.
> 
> As am I. My last previous update (without the problem AFAIR) was r34473, from
> mid-December; if I get the time, I'll try to bisect, if I can work out how to
> get the libav* externals to match up properly.

Should be fixed now, that was just a check in MPlayer that had no reason to
exist at all, needed only be removed.


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