Hi folks, I upgraded to : [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060217 [1.0_pre7-r1] (-3dfx) (-3dnow) (-3dnowext) +X +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug +dga +directfb -doc +dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode +esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk +i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca +lirc +live -livecd -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox (-mmx) (-mmxext) -musepack -nas +nls +nvidia +openal +opengl -oss +png -real +rtc +samba +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) (-svga) -tga -theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 +vorbis (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 0 kB and using a backup script: mencoder $FILENAME -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -aid 128 \ -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -lavcopts acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:\ vcodec=mpeg2video:keyint=15:trell:mbd=2:mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cmp=2:\ dia=-10:predia=-10:cbp:mv0:vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:vbitrate=$RATE:aspect=16/9:\ threads=2 -ofps $FRAMERATE -o $FILENAME.mpg ; Lots of errors I haven't seen were thrown: ERROR: SCR: 94334866662, APTS: 94301798400, DELTA=-0.359 secs, COMPENSATE=8611, BR: 24000, lens: 2016/2016, frames: 3 and the end result was a video that would throw the popup error "Too many frames in video buffer" (or similar). Also, audio was intermittent. Some sections of the video had audio, but most of the movie did not. # emerge info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -mtune=opteron -fomit-frame-pointer -Os -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -mtune=opteron -fomit-frame-pointer -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 3xnowex X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo canvas cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread effects emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat extensions f77 fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran gb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml h323 hdf i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib inkjar insecure-savers ithreads java jce jpeg jpg junit kqemu lcms libgda libwww lirc live logitech-mouse logrotate lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mjpeg mng motif mozcalendar mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mpqc mysql mythtv ncurses netcdf network new-login nls no_wxgtk1 nptl nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils plugin png pnp pop ppds python quicktime readline recode rtc samba sasl sdl smp spell ssl startup-notification svg tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf xchattext xinetd xml xml2 xpm xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Thanks for reading!
Those are some extreme mencoder flags there :) Try pre8, see if that helps. Thanks
