[mythtv-users] Help with mythmkmovie

[Christopher Maahs]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> I've tried running this on several recordings with no success so far.  It 
> either fails or gives me something un-watchable.  My latest attempt (on an 
> RTjpeg recording, quality 192, length 1hr) produced a seemingly infinite loop 
> of the following output:
> 
> *******************************************************************************
> Creating single frame avi
> RUNNING COMMAND: mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o 
> /tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png
> *******************************************************************************

This particular error is because mencoder is failing with an error code, 
run the command from the commandline:

'mencoder -mf on:w=480:h=480:fps=29.970 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500:keyint=15:aspect=1.3333 -o
/tmp/bframe-1-26872.avi /tmp/bframe-1-26872.png'

And you will see.

My problem was that I didn't have libpng-devel installed when I built 
mplayer.

~cj