Re: [Mjpeg-users] glav error opening .avi file

[Bernhard P. <ber...@gr...>]

Hallo

Janos G Komaromi wrote:
> Yes Bernie, that's it. My distro is Gentoo, which means it i compiled
> from a Gentoo source. I believe I can recompile it with the yuv4mpeg use
> flag. I'll post another message once I succeed with the original command
> set just to close this thread. Thank you for your help - Janos
One thing comes into my mind, it might be that the configure script 
checks if the mjpegtools libraries are available and only activates it 
automatic if it finds them the Option that force yuv4mpeg is: 
--enable-yuv4mpeg.


> On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 06:29:22 +0200
> Bernhard Praschinger <ber...@gr...> wrote:
> 
>> Hallo,
>>
>> It seems that your version of mplayer was not complied with the
>> That is the important line: Error opening/initializing the selected
>> video_out (-vo) device.
>>
>> Please do a test: > mplayer -vo help
>> You should find a line like:
>> 	yuv4mpeg	yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
>>
>> If not, it would mean to me that mplayer was compiled without
>> yuv4mpeg support. My version of mplayer: MPlayer 1.4-7
>>
>> If you did compile it on you own please check when running t
>> configure that you find in the enabled driver yuv4mpeg.
>>    Enabled optional drivers:
>>       Input: ftp pvr tv-v4l2 tv cddb cdda dvdread vcd dvb networking
>>       Codecs: libvpx xvid ffmpeg(internal) real xanim faac libmpeg2
>> mpg123 speex
>>       Audio output: alsa pulse oss v4l2 sdl mpegpes(dvb)
>>       Video output: v4l2 matrixview opengl sdl pnm jpeg mpegpes(dvb)
>> fbdev xvidix cvidix x11 xover yuv4mpeg md5sum tga
>> ---END---
>>
>> If you use the precompiled version from your distribution I would
>> recommend that you download the source and compile it on your own.
>>
>>
auf hoffentlich bald,

Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter

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