Re: [transcode-users] Transcoder has been installed without error through Yast2, but export fails to initialise

[Iain MacGranthin]

On 15 Jun 2006, at 10:44, Francesco Romani wrote: On 6/13/06, Iain MacGranthin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but the error I am receiving is:  [export_xvid4.so] Encoder initialization failed  video export module error  [transcode] warning : (encoder.c) video export module error: init failed  [transcode] critical: failed to init encoder Looks like an xvid internal problem. Unfortunately, AFAIK, xvid error reporting facilities aren't exactly ideal, so isn't trivial to see what's going wrong. What is the source of your xvid package (I mean source repository)? And what is the version of your xvid encoder? The source is Packman suse 10.1 x86_64 libraries. The XviD version is the latest available - 1.1.0 I think (can't remember and am away from desktop) -  from the same repository I'm not aware of general problem between transcode and xvid (i.e. outdated module and/or API and/or ABI). As workaround, you can use ffmpeg's mpeg4 encoder (-y ffmpeg -F mpeg4), but I'd like to know what's going wrong here, since this isn't the first XviD failure report that I've seen recently (there is another just a few messages around). [...]  [export_xvid4.so] Reading configuration from './xvid4.cfg'  [export_xvid4.so] Reading config section 'features' from './xvid4.cfg'  [export_xvid4.so] Reading config section 'quantizer' from './xvid4.cfg'  [export_xvid4.so] Reading config section 'cbr' from './xvid4.cfg'  [export_xvid4.so] Reading config section 'vbr' from './xvid4.cfg' [...] As further test I suggest to temporary disable external configuration (rename or move away configuration file) and see if this helps. It should NOT help, but is interesting to make sure ;) (because if this helps a transcode problem is much more probable). I have tried this, and it didn't find the libraries, but came up wth a similar error. Also, I got pretty much the same result when  trying DivX, or ffmpeg with mpeg4. When I tried manually compiling transcode I got a fail because a file was in the wrong format - I cannot remember the name (lib***su.***). When I return to th pc I will try another compile and give better details on that. I must also say that I had been using transcode before to good effect with suse 10.0, and I cannot remember having particular problems setting it up. best regards, --  Francesco Romani