Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread altern
IOhannes m zmoelnig(e)k dio:
 altern wrote:
 hi

 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 
 
 oh and i forgot: vlc uses different decoding libraries than Gem; being 
 able to playback your movies (with Gem) on one computer and not on the 
 other, could of course mean, that you haven't installed the proper 
 codecs for the library Gem is using (but ok for vlc...)

thanks for explaining, i did not know this.

 have you installed the w32codecs package? (this is - at least on debian 
 - a way to get loads of codecs; i don't know how this works on ubuntu)

no results with
$ apt-cache search w32codecs

i will try to find if it has some other name in ubuntu

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread altern
hi

IOhannes m zmoelnig(e)k dio:
 altern wrote:
 hi

 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. 
 I tried to find the reason for the error and I found that I can use 
 the first frame but as soon as I go the the second or further it 
 doesnt display it.
 
 is lqtplay able to playback this movie?
 aviplay?

yes it plays ok with lqtplay.

 which decoding libraries is Gem linked against?
 (you can see this when you create the first [pix_film] object. it should 
 say something like:
 pix_film:: quicktime support
 pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
 pix_film:: libaviplay support
 pix_film:: FFMPEG support)

pix_film:: quicktime support
pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
pix_film:: libaviplay support
pix_film:: libmpeg support

btw. i am using pix_movie instead of pix_film to play the video, i am 
not sure about the difference between both at the moment. I am going to 
check the docs now...

 which decoding library is used for the movie?
 you should be able to find this out by looking on the pd-console when 
 the video is opened (depending on the version and verbosity of Gem)
 
 e.g. i get something like:
 [pix_filmNEW]: opening 
 /Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi 
 with format 1908
 [pix_filmNEW]:  ...
 [pix_filmNEW]:  ...
 [pix_filmNEW]: loaded file: 
 /Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi 
 with 85 frames (160x120) at 25.00 fps
 
 which means that the famous homer.avi has been loaded by the 3rd option 
 (libaviplay), after the 1st two options failed (indicated by ...)

I get

[pix_movieNEW]: opening /home/r2d2/ixi/pd/ehu/ehu/../train.mov with 
format 1908
[pix_movieNEW]:  ...
[pix_movieNEW]:  ...
[pix_movieNEW]: loaded file: /home/r2d2/ixi/pd/ehu/ehu/../train.mov with 
108 frames (240x180) at 12.019231 fps

then it opens with libaviplay i guess ...

btw 2 . the quality of the video has dropped since i upgraded to Gutsy. 
The webcam image was already bad before, but now with Gutsy the 
compression boxes are far bigger. The image is far more poor now. I 
guess it has to do with the libraries that do the uncompressing.

 btw. passing mode 0 to pix_texture crashed PD. I was trying this to 
 
 now that is bad.
 did you send the mode 0 message before you started rendering or after 
 you got several gl invalid enumerant errors?

it is connected to a loadbang so it should be before starting rendering.

 critical area. Bad because I dont have the time before the 
 installation opening.
 
 sorry to hear that.

we found another computer that runs the patches fine, it is actually 
newer and faster so it was good in the end :)

thanks

enrike


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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:30 +0100, altern wrote:
 IOhannes m zmoelnig(e)k dio:
  altern wrote:
  hi
 
  the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 
  
  oh and i forgot: vlc uses different decoding libraries than Gem; being 
  able to playback your movies (with Gem) on one computer and not on the 
  other, could of course mean, that you haven't installed the proper 
  codecs for the library Gem is using (but ok for vlc...)
 
 thanks for explaining, i did not know this.
 
  have you installed the w32codecs package? (this is - at least on debian 
  - a way to get loads of codecs; i don't know how this works on ubuntu)
 
 no results with
 $ apt-cache search w32codecs
 
 i will try to find if it has some other name in ubuntu

check mplayers homepage. afaik, they distribute codec packages, that
also contain the w32codecs, that are used by libavicodec.

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread mik
Roman Haefeli schreef:
 On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:30 +0100, altern wrote:
 IOhannes m zmoelnig(e)k dio:
 altern wrote:
 hi

 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 
 oh and i forgot: vlc uses different decoding libraries than Gem; being 
 able to playback your movies (with Gem) on one computer and not on the 
 other, could of course mean, that you haven't installed the proper 
 codecs for the library Gem is using (but ok for vlc...)
 thanks for explaining, i did not know this.

 have you installed the w32codecs package? (this is - at least on debian 
 - a way to get loads of codecs; i don't know how this works on ubuntu)
 no results with
 $ apt-cache search w32codecs

 i will try to find if it has some other name in ubuntu
 
 check mplayers homepage. afaik, they distribute codec packages, that
 also contain the w32codecs, that are used by libavicodec.
 
 roman
 

for w32codecs add medibuntu to your repositories: http://www.medibuntu.org/.


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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-01 Thread altern
mik(e)k dio:
 Roman Haefeli schreef:
 On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:30 +0100, altern wrote:
 IOhannes m zmoelnig(e)k dio:
 altern wrote:
 hi

 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no 
 problem. I 
 oh and i forgot: vlc uses different decoding libraries than Gem; 
 being able to playback your movies (with Gem) on one computer and 
 not on the other, could of course mean, that you haven't installed 
 the proper codecs for the library Gem is using (but ok for vlc...)
 thanks for explaining, i did not know this.

 have you installed the w32codecs package? (this is - at least on 
 debian - a way to get loads of codecs; i don't know how this works 
 on ubuntu)
 no results with
 $ apt-cache search w32codecs

 i will try to find if it has some other name in ubuntu

 check mplayers homepage. afaik, they distribute codec packages, that
 also contain the w32codecs, that are used by libavicodec.

 roman

 
 for w32codecs add medibuntu to your repositories: 
 http://www.medibuntu.org/.

thanks!!

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-31 Thread altern
hi

the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 
tried to find the reason for the error and I found that I can use the 
first frame but as soon as I go the the second or further it doesnt 
display it.

btw. passing mode 0 to pix_texture crashed PD. I was trying this to 
avoid the gl invalid enumerant problem i am getting on windows. I 
guess I might have to re construct my patch step by step to find the 
critical area. Bad because I dont have the time before the installation 
opening.

thanks

enrike

Roman Haefeli(e)k dio:
 On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 05:23 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
 Roman Haefeli wrote:
 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:38 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:

 Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
 mencoder or transcode?

 Try

 $ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
 train.mov

 and load the film train.avi
 hi thomas

 maybe i missed something, but i don't quite see why you are suggesting
 to reencode the movie to avi-container with xvid codec. 
 I don't have much experience with different codecs/containers and Gem,
 but - as I said - my first guess is, that the movie is somehow corrupt.
 So 1. reencoding the movie would be an option to check for this, 2.
 mencoder is easy to install on a Linux system and 3. this is a setting
 that works on my system, as mencoder with -ovc lavc produces movies,
 that Gem (pd-extended 0.39-3 on Debian) can't load. That was merely an
 idea for troubleshooting.
 
 lavc is a codec family, not a codec. you need to specify a codec with
 '-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=codecname'. 
 
 however, i didn't want to suggest, that i do _not_ believe, that the
 file could be corrupt, but i would have tried a different codec first,
 that is more likely to work. 
 
 my suggestion is this:
 
 mencoder input.mov -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -nosound -of lavf
 -lavfopts format=mov -o output.mov  
 
 # if you use an older version of mencoder, you probably need to add a
 # flag called 'i_certify_not_to_use_b_frames' (don't know the exact name
 # but you'll find it in the manual.
 
 
 (in one line)
 
 this works at least here and some other people reported, that it works.
 it would be interesting to know, if it also helps in enrike's case 
 
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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-31 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
altern wrote:
 hi
 
 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 

oh and i forgot: vlc uses different decoding libraries than Gem; being 
able to playback your movies (with Gem) on one computer and not on the 
other, could of course mean, that you haven't installed the proper 
codecs for the library Gem is using (but ok for vlc...)

have you installed the w32codecs package? (this is - at least on debian 
- a way to get loads of codecs; i don't know how this works on ubuntu)


mfga.dsr
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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-31 Thread Jaime Oliver
hello all,

where can I search for info on what does CLAMP() do in gem external
codes, i see it everywhere but don't know where to look.

best,

J


On 10/31/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 altern wrote:
  hi
 
  the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I
  tried to find the reason for the error and I found that I can use the
  first frame but as soon as I go the the second or further it doesnt
  display it.

 is lqtplay able to playback this movie?
 aviplay?

 which decoding libraries is Gem linked against?
 (you can see this when you create the first [pix_film] object. it should
 say something like:
 pix_film:: quicktime support
 pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
 pix_film:: libaviplay support
 pix_film:: FFMPEG support)

 which decoding library is used for the movie?
 you should be able to find this out by looking on the pd-console when
 the video is opened (depending on the version and verbosity of Gem)

 e.g. i get something like:
 [pix_filmNEW]: opening
 /Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi
 with format 1908
 [pix_filmNEW]:  ...
 [pix_filmNEW]:  ...
 [pix_filmNEW]: loaded file:
 /Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi
 with 85 frames (160x120) at 25.00 fps

 which means that the famous homer.avi has been loaded by the 3rd option
 (libaviplay), after the 1st two options failed (indicated by ...)

 
  btw. passing mode 0 to pix_texture crashed PD. I was trying this to

 now that is bad.
 did you send the mode 0 message before you started rendering or after
 you got several gl invalid enumerant errors?
  critical area. Bad because I dont have the time before the installation
  opening.

 sorry to hear that.

 fgmasdr.
 IOhannes

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-31 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
altern wrote:
 hi
 
 the video does not seem corrupted i can open it with VLC, no problem. I 
 tried to find the reason for the error and I found that I can use the 
 first frame but as soon as I go the the second or further it doesnt 
 display it.

is lqtplay able to playback this movie?
aviplay?

which decoding libraries is Gem linked against?
(you can see this when you create the first [pix_film] object. it should 
say something like:
pix_film:: quicktime support
pix_film:: libmpeg3 support
pix_film:: libaviplay support
pix_film:: FFMPEG support)

which decoding library is used for the movie?
you should be able to find this out by looking on the pd-console when 
the video is opened (depending on the version and verbosity of Gem)

e.g. i get something like:
[pix_filmNEW]: opening 
/Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi 
with format 1908
[pix_filmNEW]:  ...
[pix_filmNEW]:  ...
[pix_filmNEW]: loaded file: 
/Net/iem/Benutzer/zmoelnig/src/cvs/pd-gem/Gem/examples/data/homer.avi 
with 85 frames (160x120) at 25.00 fps

which means that the famous homer.avi has been loaded by the 3rd option 
(libaviplay), after the 1st two options failed (indicated by ...)

 
 btw. passing mode 0 to pix_texture crashed PD. I was trying this to 

now that is bad.
did you send the mode 0 message before you started rendering or after 
you got several gl invalid enumerant errors?
 critical area. Bad because I dont have the time before the installation 
 opening.

sorry to hear that.

fgmasdr.
IOhannes

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[PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread altern
Hi

I am getting this GEM error that was not there before changing to latest 
PD extended Hans sent last week to the list, with Ubuntu Gutsy (Ubuntu 
Studio flavor, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SM). I am trying to play a 
quicktime video, before there was no problem at all, now it doesnt 
display anything and sometimes it crashes when trying to open the file.

This is the PD output in PD main window.

[pix_movieNEW]: opening /home/r2d2/ixi/pd/ehu/ehu/../train.mov with
format 1908
[pix_movieNEW]:  ...
[pix_movieNEW]:  ...
[pix_movieNEW]: loaded file: /home/r2d2/ixi/pd/ehu/ehu/../train.mov with
108 frames (240x180) at 12.019231 fps
Direct Rendering enabled!
GEM: Start rendering
GL: invalid value

and this is the error i get if i run it from the terminal

$ pd video-help.pd
tk scaling is 1.20094562648
init : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.47-070916-12:47-4.1.3
init : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
tm up
init : 1694.91 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz processor detected
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x0 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 0
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x3 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 69
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x6 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 138
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x9 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 207
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x12 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 276
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x15 i:1
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 345
[h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]concealing 396 DC, 396 AC, 396 MV errors

I have been trying to find if there is some codec or lib i need to 
install but i could not find any.

thanks in advance for any help

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Mayer
Hello Enrike,

altern wrote:
 Hi
 
 I am getting this GEM error that was not there before changing to latest 
 PD extended Hans sent last week to the list, with Ubuntu Gutsy (Ubuntu 
 Studio flavor, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SM). I am trying to play a 
 quicktime video, before there was no problem at all, now it doesnt 
 display anything and sometimes it crashes when trying to open the file.

 and this is the error i get if i run it from the terminal
 
 $ pd video-help.pd
 tk scaling is 1.20094562648
 init : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.47-070916-12:47-4.1.3
 init : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht
 tm up
 init : 1694.91 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz processor detected
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x0 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 0
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x3 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 69
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x6 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 138
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x9 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 207
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x12 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 276
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]run overflow at 0x15 i:1
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]Error at MB: 345
 [h263 @ 0xb6dd4614]concealing 396 DC, 396 AC, 396 MV errors
 
 I have been trying to find if there is some codec or lib i need to 
 install but i could not find any.

Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
mencoder or transcode?

Try

$ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
train.mov

and load the film train.avi

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:38 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:

 Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
 mencoder or transcode?
 
 Try
 
 $ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
 train.mov
 
 and load the film train.avi

hi thomas

maybe i missed something, but i don't quite see why you are suggesting
to reencode the movie to avi-container with xvid codec. usually it is a
bad thing to do, because xvid codec, that is quite heavy cpu-wise to
decode (ok, on decent computers it is not that much an issue anymore),
and - what is much more important - it is a so called interframe codec,
which means, that many frames are dependent on each other. this
basically means, that the codec is optimized to be played only forward
and at 1x speed. playing at a different speed or backwards can either
produce funny artefacts or not work at all. usually when using a video
in gem, having high flexibility and low cpu cost is much more important
than small file size. that is why so called intraframe codecs are rather
recommended for this kind of task. 'intraframe' means, that each frame
is encoded separately, which makes it very easy to access and render
random frames. i think most supported intraframe codecs are 'jpeg',
'mjpeg' and 'dv'. 
yo, i am not very much an expert in this field, so i might be not very
precise in everything, but i hope i could give some idea, why generally
you rather not want xvid as movie codec to be used in gem (although you
are especially looking for funny effects).

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 03:29 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:38 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
 
  Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
  mencoder or transcode?
  
  Try
  
  $ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
  train.mov
  
  and load the film train.avi
 
 hi thomas
 
 maybe i missed something, but i don't quite see why you are suggesting
 to reencode the movie to avi-container with xvid codec. usually it is a
 bad thing to do, because xvid codec, that is quite heavy cpu-wise to
 decode (ok, on decent computers it is not that much an issue anymore),
 and - what is much more important - it is a so called interframe codec,
 which means, that many frames are dependent on each other. this
 basically means, that the codec is optimized to be played only forward
 and at 1x speed. playing at a different speed or backwards can either
 produce funny artefacts or not work at all. usually when using a video
 in gem, having high flexibility and low cpu cost is much more important
 than small file size. that is why so called intraframe codecs are rather
 recommended for this kind of task. 'intraframe' means, that each frame
 is encoded separately, which makes it very easy to access and render
 random frames. i think most supported intraframe codecs are 'jpeg',
 'mjpeg' and 'dv'. 
 yo, i am not very much an expert in this field, so i might be not very
 precise in everything, but i hope i could give some idea, why generally
 you rather not want xvid as movie codec to be used in gem (although you
 are especially looking for funny effects).

argh, sorry for my english. i wanted to say:

excepting you are looking for funny effects.

roman





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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Mayer
Roman Haefeli wrote:
 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:38 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
 
 Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
 mencoder or transcode?

 Try

 $ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
 train.mov

 and load the film train.avi
 
 hi thomas
 
 maybe i missed something, but i don't quite see why you are suggesting
 to reencode the movie to avi-container with xvid codec. 

I don't have much experience with different codecs/containers and Gem,
but - as I said - my first guess is, that the movie is somehow corrupt.
So 1. reencoding the movie would be an option to check for this, 2.
mencoder is easy to install on a Linux system and 3. this is a setting
that works on my system, as mencoder with -ovc lavc produces movies,
that Gem (pd-extended 0.39-3 on Debian) can't load. That was merely an
idea for troubleshooting.

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Re: [PD] GEM error on latest pd extended with Ubuntu Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 05:23 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
 Roman Haefeli wrote:
  On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:38 +0100, Thomas Mayer wrote:
  
  Maybe the video is corrupt, have you tried transcoding the video with
  mencoder or transcode?
 
  Try
 
  $ mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800 -oac copy -o train.avi
  train.mov
 
  and load the film train.avi
  
  hi thomas
  
  maybe i missed something, but i don't quite see why you are suggesting
  to reencode the movie to avi-container with xvid codec. 
 
 I don't have much experience with different codecs/containers and Gem,
 but - as I said - my first guess is, that the movie is somehow corrupt.
 So 1. reencoding the movie would be an option to check for this, 2.
 mencoder is easy to install on a Linux system and 3. this is a setting
 that works on my system, as mencoder with -ovc lavc produces movies,
 that Gem (pd-extended 0.39-3 on Debian) can't load. That was merely an
 idea for troubleshooting.

lavc is a codec family, not a codec. you need to specify a codec with
'-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=codecname'. 

however, i didn't want to suggest, that i do _not_ believe, that the
file could be corrupt, but i would have tried a different codec first,
that is more likely to work. 

my suggestion is this:

mencoder input.mov -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -nosound -of lavf
-lavfopts format=mov -o output.mov  

# if you use an older version of mencoder, you probably need to add a
# flag called 'i_certify_not_to_use_b_frames' (don't know the exact name
# but you'll find it in the manual.


(in one line)

this works at least here and some other people reported, that it works.
it would be interesting to know, if it also helps in enrike's case 

roman





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