Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:55 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >> hi. >> >> Javier García wrote: >>> >>> Roman Haefeli wrote: >>> >>> >>> > mencoder Skim.wmv -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -of >>> > lavf -lavfopts format=mov -o outfile.mov >>> >>> Thanks Roman but it gives this error: >> is it just my mail-client...? > > what do you mean?
it just looks weird on my reader (with all the spaces between levels of citations) but nevermind >> wow, you are using a very old mencoder installations. > > yes and no, it is indeed a very old version of mencoder, but still the > most recent one, that is available as a binary. you also find _very_ old > binaries in many distros. i see. debian testing/unstable (which i am using), has mencoder svn-4.2.1 since debian is considered by many people as "the distro with the outdated packages" i tend to think that everything that is older than the debian-packages is "very old". > > actually, it is not more than a few weeks, probably months ago, since > -lavfopts was fixed and the option 'i_certify...' disappeared, so this > is not a sign, that a _very_ old version is used here. > > however, compiling mplayer from svn-sources is highly recommended, > because bugs usually get fixed quite quickly and more recent version can > be considered to be even more stable than old ones. hmm, what i don't understand: you haven't mentioned the i_certify_ flag, it was just the error javier got. > >> yves has just recently posted the commandline to use such an old >> mencoder. search the list archives for >> "i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames" >> >> or update your ffmpeg installation (which version of ubuntu do you use?) > > debian etch: 1.0~rc1 > ubuntu dapper: 1.0pre7try2 > (don't know about more recent ubuntusm though) > the question was directed to javier rather than you. sorry for the confusion mfga.dr IOhannes _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list