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Jordanlw

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Registered: 2010-07-27

Posts: 44

mencoder output not working with VLC

Hello,
I'm currently unable to get the output from mencoder to run under VLC, the error message VLC displays is:
    No suitable decoder module:
    VLC does not support the audio or video format "   ". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
I have 2 files that together are a single movie, I encoded each one to MPG format with ffmpeg then merged them with cat (with the right order), I then processed them with mencoder, the output of mencoder is the currently unplayable file.
Thanks.

EDIT: Also forgot to mention the video runs fine with mplayer & ffplay

Last edited by Jordanlw (2011-06-18 18:12:12)

adamlau

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 418

Re: mencoder output not working with VLC

More info would be needed i.e. the output of 'ffmpeg -i foo.bar.mpg' for each file. What does your mencoder command string look like?

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ConnorBehan

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Re: mencoder output not working with VLC

It's supposed to be that way. Mencoder was a quick hack job that made no attempt at interoperability. Even official guides say that http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/me … mcopy.html. Look up how to do the same thing but using ffmpeg the whole way.

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