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jcaputo1 at comcast

Jun 13, 2003, 4:45 PM

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Help with mythmkmovie

I've tried running this on several recordings with no success so far. It
either fails or gives me something un-watchable. My latest attempt (on an
RTjpeg recording, quality 192, length 1hr) produced a seemingly infinite loop
of the following output:

*******************************************************************************
Creating single frame avi
RUNNING COMMAND: mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
/tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png
*******************************************************************************

This is with mkmovie 0.9. All the files have played fine with the patched
mplayer.

Any suggestions?

-JAC

rkulagowski at thrupoint

Jun 13, 2003, 5:26 PM

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RE: Help with mythmkmovie [In reply to]

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> My latest attempt (on an RTjpeg recording, quality 192, length 1hr)
> produced a seemingly infinite loop of the following output:

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I got the same thing. Also, it seems to be quite the memory hog.
I've got 640MB of RAM and a 256MB swap file. I was getting 1% user,
99% system as kswapd was moving things in and out of memory. I
created a temporary swap file and had to add it to even get the
program to the point where it got stuck in that loop.

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cmaahs at eatenbygrue

Jun 13, 2003, 6:45 PM

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Re: Help with mythmkmovie [In reply to]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> I've tried running this on several recordings with no success so far. It
> either fails or gives me something un-watchable. My latest attempt (on an
> RTjpeg recording, quality 192, length 1hr) produced a seemingly infinite loop
> of the following output:
>
> *******************************************************************************
> Creating single frame avi
> RUNNING COMMAND: mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
> /tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png
> *******************************************************************************

This particular error is because mencoder is failing with an error code,
run the command from the commandline:

'mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
/tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png'

And you will see.

My problem was that I didn't have libpng-devel installed when I built
mplayer.

~cj

jcaputo1 at comcast

Jun 14, 2003, 11:08 AM

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Re: Help with mythmkmovie [In reply to]

On Friday 13 June 2003 09:45 pm, Christopher Maahs wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > I've tried running this on several recordings with no success so far. It
> > either fails or gives me something un-watchable. My latest attempt (on
> > an RTjpeg recording, quality 192, length 1hr) produced a seemingly
> > infinite loop of the following output:
> >
> > *************************************************************************
> >****** Creating single frame avi
> > RUNNING COMMAND: mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc
> > -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
> > /tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png
> > *************************************************************************
> >******
>
> This particular error is because mencoder is failing with an error code,
> run the command from the commandline:
>
> 'mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
> /tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png'
>
> And you will see.
>
> My problem was that I didn't have libpng-devel installed when I built
> mplayer.

I have libpng-devel-1.2.2-8.

If I run the mencoder command above, it segfaults with the following:

MEncoder 0.90rc4-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP
Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Reading /home/caputo/.mplayer/codecs.conf: this codecs.conf is too old,
incompatible with this mplayer release! at line 6
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 135 video codecs
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Reading config file /home/caputo/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x0
forced mf.
[demuxer] mf support.
[demux_mf] file type was not set! trying 'type=png'...
[mf] search expr: /tmp/bframe-1-4268.png*
[mf] number of files: 1 (4)
[V] filefmt:16 fourcc:0x474E504D size:480x480 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 decoder: [mpng] PNG Images decoder
Selected video codec: [mpng] vfm:mpng (PNG images decoder)
==========================================================================
Writing AVI header...
libpng error: [0D]IHD: invalid chunk type
Segmentation fault

Something tells me you can't just run this from the command line, as
frameno.avi will not exists...

Any help?

-JAC

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