[MPlayer-users] Mplayer crashes when trying to play mp4 and mencoder produces garbage output when trying to transcode it

[Jonathan Busby]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Jonathan Busby <jonathanbusby <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a short mp4 I need to transcode to a lower
>> framerate but mplayer is producing garbage output
>> that causes it to crash when it tries to play the
>> resulting file.
>
> Please use FFmpeg, MEncoder is not an actively
> maintained application for several years.
>
> Regarding the crash, please upload a file that
> allows to reproduce the problem or provide a
> backtrace, disassembly and register output as
> explained on http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html
>
> Carl Eugen

Ok, but as I explained in my post it's Mplayer that is crashing not
Mencoder. Furthermore Mplayer crashes when trying to play the source
mp4 file which WMP can play fine.

Thanks for the suggestion to use FFmpeg -- I will try it.

Jonathan