oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night.avi # this is my starting movie. i can see it with mplayer and vlc
vulcano-by-night.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 618 x 190, 7.00 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4
oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ mencoder vulcano-by-night.avi -of lavf -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -ovc x264 -o vulcano-by-night.mov
MEncoder 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x1073e60
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [FMP4] 618x190 24bpp 7.000 fps 591.1 kbps (72.2 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x34504D46 size:618x190 fps: 7.00 ftime:=0.1429
** MUXER_LAVF *****************************************************************
You have certified that your video stream does not contain B frames.
REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and will generate
INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
*******************************************************************************
OK, exit
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 618 x 190 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is 3.25:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (618x190), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE 3DNow!
VIDEO CODEC ID: 28
Writing header...
(...)
SEEK 5058942
Video stream: 173.329 kbit/s (21666 B/s) size: 5045121 bytes 232.857 secs 1630 frames
x264 [info]: slice I:21 Avg QP:23.00 size: 8787
x264 [info]: slice P:1609 Avg QP:26.00 size: 3020
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 43.8% 0.0% 56.2%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 12.4% 0.0% 10.5% P16..4: 18.7% 12.8% 4.4% 0.0% 0.0% skip:41.2%
x264 [info]: kb/s:173.3
oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night.mov
vulcano-by-night.mov: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie
oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ qtstreamize vulcano-by-night.mov vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov
quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called
oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov
vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov: Apple QuickTime movie (fast start)
oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ mplayer vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov
MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Warning unknown option volume at line 11
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov.
MOV: missing data (mdat) chunk! Maybe broken file...
MOV: missing data (mdat) chunk! Maybe broken file...
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x8817808]Could not find codec parameters (Video: h264, 618x190)
LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
Exiting... (End of file)