I don't get it....really...

[okwhatev]

Okay...all I wanted to do was convert a demuxed file using ffmpegx on my G5. The thing was working fine..then suddenly...every time I would click on 'encode' it would spin, try to load mencoder and then right away mencoder would close, and it would do nothing.

Strangely, works fine on my powerbook g4. Annoying though, since obviously, I'd much rather use my g5.

I've uninstalled ffmpegx and the codecs and reinstalled several times. But the dang thing won't encode anything anymore. Will play the source file in 'preview' though. What's going on?

[DaleMox]

Preview uses mplayer. It's a problem with mencoder.
As suggested only a few days ago, if you, as i did, have a problem with mencoder use ffmpegX 0.0.9k, and follow the instructions to install those binaries.

Dale

[okwhatev]

Nope. Doesn't work. It still plays, but nothing happens when you click 'preview' and nothing happens when you click encode. Grrrrrrr!

[major]

Strange issue. Try to redownload and reinstall. Try "Open terminal window" option in the tools tab.

[okwhatev]

Here's what's happening in terminal.....any suggestions? Again....my Powerbook, no problem. The app works great...
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Last login: Fri Feb 4 15:18:04 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
pbpaste | sh
Gregs-G5:~ disenchantment$ pbpaste | sh
Encoding started on Fri Feb 4 15:18:05 PST 2005
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

AltiVec found
Reading /Users/disenchantment/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/disenchantment/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Reading config file /Users/disenchantment/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x1616A4FB
MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.97 fps 12250.0 kbps (1531.2 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:1 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x480 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
Opening video filter: [scale=720:480]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: No accelerated IDCT transform found
libmpeg2: No accelerated motion compensation found
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
videocodec: libavcodec (720x480 fourcc=58564944 [XVID])
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Writing AVI header...
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Pos: 0.0s 2f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 0.5s 13f ( 0%) 0fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS changed to 23.976!
Pos: 100.8s 2417f (18%) 24fps Trem: 7min 98mb A-V:0.000 [1518:0]

[major]

Everything seem fine in this output, which is your problem here?
(PS/ You're using a vastly obsolete version of the binaries, update at http://homepage.mac.com/major4/download.html).

[okwhatev]

Actually, since I never used the terminal window, I never noticed that it was actually encoding. The thing is, the little graphical encoder bar doesn't pop up anymore. Why would that be?

And thanks for the heads up on the codecs...