On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Forced video codec: ffmpeg12
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo' in libavcodec...
> VDecoder init failed :(
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x10000002.
> Read DOCS/en/codecs.html!

My etc/codecs.conf contains:

videocodec ffmpeg2
  info "FFmpeg MPEG 2"
  status working
  format 0x10000002  ; mpeg 2
  fourcc mpg2
  driver ffmpeg
  dll "mpeg2video"
  out YV12,I420,IYUV

Howabout yours? (That's etc in the source directories of course in my case.)

If yours is missing maybe it's time to upgrade. Or, reading 
DOCS/en/codecs.html as suggested above, in the section on FFmpeg/libavcodec:
"If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package, just 
build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to extract libavcodec 
from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases are very rare. "

ISTR, you built from CVS, while I'm looking at a release (1.0pre3)

> So, to sum up, yes it does seem to be a "read error confusion"
> in that mencoder is having problems handling the variable nature of DVD
> CD's and yes I do think it needs fixing.Needless to say that is beyond my
> abilities. Still, I can help identify the problem, and that is half the
> battle.

There's certainly a bug there, and therefore it needs fixing. But if you can 
work around it then it isn't going to be your problem. Why beat your head 
against something you've already found to be a wall. OTOH, if you can't find 
a workaround then you need to be very careful to jump through all the hoops 
when you report the problem, including running the latest CVS code, no matter 
how stupid the hoops are.

It took me 20 years to learn to welcome bug reports. Most programmers would 
prefer to dismiss them. (Although generally less so in the open source 
world.)

-- 
Richard Urwin

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