preview button in mplayer opens, but nothing is shown?
 

hi to all,

I'm having a problem with Mencode-me ( or mencoder ??? )

When i hit 'preview' button mplayer opens and nothing is been shown

here is the whole log

Source Width:720 Source Height:576 Aspect:1.000000

mplayer.exe -vo directx -include temp.conf -nosound -aspect 720:576 "E:\film.avi MPlayer dev-CVS-040430-00:00-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 1870 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
: No such file or directory
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
Can't open '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
Can't open input config file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.confReading config file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.mplayer/config
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Reading config file temp.conf
Reading /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using usleep() timing

Playing E:\film.avi.
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [AVIS] 720x576 16bpp 25.000 fps 0.8 kbps ( 0.1 kbyte/s)
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [vfw] Win32/VfW video codecs
Loaded DLL driver ffvfw
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Packed YUY2)
[PP] Using codec's postprocessing, max q = 9.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.25:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [directx] 720x576 => 720x576 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [makeavis] vfm:vfw (FFvfw makeavis)
ICDecompressBegin failed: Error -100
================================================== ========================
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Audio: no sound
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
Starting playback...
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
V:2409.0 60226 0% 37% 0.0% 0 0 0%
Exiting... (Quit)



what is wrong ?
Even when I'm pressing Encode button the encoding process starts but
the result is a black video file

thanks in advance

did you preview that AVI in Vdub or WMP??? Maybe also there a "black" screen comes out.

no
I can see the movie when I preview the fake AVI with WMP

There's an error when trying to decompress using makeavisvideocodec!

Did you install everything as its explained at the newbie thread from RDS-Correia?

I'm sure

but I'll try again from the start ...

Hi there,
Yes there seems to be an error coming up on clickit's log file.
But apparently he did everything the guide instructed him as you can see in his log too "Loaded DLL driver ffvfw".
This is the first time I see such an error in mencoder log :(
I'm affraid I can't help you clickit :cry: .
Cheers

eureka !!!
 

I think I have found the solution to my problem

here is the line that causes the problem :

DirectShowSource("xxx.avi", audio=false)

and here is the right line, that fixes the problem with mplayer and mencoder


DirectShowSource("e:\my stuff\xxx.avi", audio=false)

It seems that by adding the full path to the movie it eliminates the problem

Re: eureka !!!
 

I just want to say that I had the exact same problem just now with a SVCD source that I processed throught DVD2AVI and a script using mpeg2source (and not directshowsource). I solved the issue with the same trick.

:arrow: Use complete paths into your script :!:

That Log related to a correct aspectration is wrong!
Means perfect would be 720x576 Aspect 4:3 in a float written 1.33333 or 16:9 (1.777778)
Be shure you determined in your commandline the right aspect=XXXX so that your movie afterwrards will be played back correct.