xvid problem

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:20 -0400, Ben Novack wrote:
> MEncoder 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> MMX2 supported but disabled
> SSE2 supported but disabled
> CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE
> 
> File not found: 'frameno.avi'
> Failed to open frameno.avi
> 
> Available codecs:
>    copy     - frame copy, without re-encoding. Doesn't work with filters.
>    frameno  - special audio-only file for 3-pass encoding, see DOCS.
>    raw      - uncompressed video. Use fourcc option to set format explicitly.
>    nuv      - nuppel video
>    lavc     - libavcodec codecs - best quality!
>    vfw      - VfW DLLs, currently only AVID is supported.
>    qtvideo  - QuickTime DLLs, currently only SVQ1/3 are supported.
>    libdv    - DV encoding with libdv v0.9.5
>    xvid     - XviD encoding
> 
> 
> Exiting... (error parsing cmdline)
> 
> xvid's definitely there.
> 
> (Actually, my subject line was a poor choice. This is more accurately
> a mencoder or acidrip problem than an xvid one, I think.)
Okay, so you have MEncoder with XviD enabled.  However, I noticed
something weird above.  It reports that "MMX2" and "SSE2" are disabled!
Why?  And could this have to do with the problem in hand?  (Maybe XviD
encoder is configured to use MMX2 and/or SSE2 in your system, but it's
disabled which leads to the crash/problem.)


Try encoding any movie you have with MEncoder and XviD and see what you
get.  Assuming you have a movie file named "movie.mpeg", run:
        mencoder -nosound -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -frames 300 movie.mpeg
and see the output of that (whether it works or not is the key here).
If it fails without givving much information, re-run the command again
after passing "-v" to it.

Waiting your result.  (I'll probably go to sleep very soon, so I might
not respond to you until tomorrow night.  Sorry!)
Ziyad.