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From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:38:23
Message-Id: 4BA21099.3080200@smash-net.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc by Arnau Bria
1 Am 03/18/10 12:20, schrieb Arnau Bria:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a
5 > receipt).
6 >
7 > I run something like:
8 >
9 > mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o video_final.avi
10 >
11 > but I get the error:
12 >
13 > [...]
14 > Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
15 > ==========================================================================
16 > Cannot find codec 'xvid' in libavcodec...
17 > Couldn't open video filter 'lavc'.
18 > Failed to open the encoder.
19 >
20 >
21 > I though that building mplayer with xvid support should be enough:
22 >
23 > $ eix media-video/mplayer
24 > [I] media-video/mplayer (...)
25 >
26 > but seems that not it isn't.
27 >
28 > and don't know what lavc is...
29 >
30 > anyone could tell me what package/s are missing in my system?
31 >
32 > TIA
33 >
34 >
35
36 Hello,
37 i allways had problems with lavc so i used xvid in mplayer directly:
38 mencoder sourcefile -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=vbitrate -oac mp3lame
39 -lameopts abr:br=abitrate -o result_path
40
41 Regards
42 Norman

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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net>