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

[The Wanderer]

On 02/28/2012 02:33 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:07:03AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> On 02/26/2012 01:33 AM, Mike Castle wrote:

>>> 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.

Yep, seems to work fine now.

Thanks for the fix; it makes sense based on what I could figure out of the code,
but I haven't been following the details of either MPlayer or FFmpeg development
for some time now.

D'you happen to know when the switch that made this start failing took place? I
had a quick look, but I couldn't spot an obviously relevant commit in the logs.

-- 
       The Wanderer

Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.

Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it.
   - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger