I'm trying to use mencoder to make a video recording from a webcam. The following command was used and the resulting console output is shown below. Could someone tell me if I missed a library when I compiled the latest source from svn? Is this problem a result of a misconfiguration. I should note that I had no difficulties running the below command with MPlayer v1.0rc2. $ mencoder -v tv:// -tv driver=v4l:device=/dev/video0:width=640:height=480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libmp3lame:aspect=4/3 -ffourcc DX50 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard -o test.avi MEncoder dev-SVN-r27808-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7) CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Configuration: --enable-gui init_freetype get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/wt/.mplayer/font/font.desc' font: can't open file: /home/wt/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay STREAM: [tv] tv:// STREAM: Description: TV Input STREAM: Author: Benjamin Zores, Albeu STREAM: Comment: success: format: 9 data: 0x0 - 0x0 TV file format detected. Selected driver: v4l name: Video 4 Linux input author: Alex Beregszaszi comment: under development Selected device: Creative Nx Pro Capabilites: capture Device type: 1 Supported sizes: 176x144 => 640x480 Inputs: 1 0: ZC301-2: (tuner:0, norm:pal) Using input 'ZC301-2' tv.c: norm_from_string(pal): Bogus norm parameter, setting default. Selected norm : pal Unknown norm! Error: Cannot set norm! Requested width: 640 Requested height: 480 Selected input hasn't got a tuner! ==> Found video stream: 0 Output format: Planar YV12 Picture values: Depth: 12, Palette: yuv420p (Format: Planar YV12) Brightness: 32768, Hue: 0, Colour: 0, Contrast: 32768 mbuf: size=2457616, frames=2 Using a ring buffer for maximum 861 frames, 378 MB total size. [V] filefmt:9 fourcc:0x32315659 size:640x480 fps:0.000 ftime:= inf [file] File size is 0 bytes STREAM: [file] test.avi STREAM: Description: File STREAM: Author: Albeu STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi) Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) Trying filter chain: expand lavc VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO Config (640x480->640x480,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659) REQ: flags=0x401 req=0x0 videocodec: libavcodec (640x480 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4]) [mpeg4 @ 0x8b58340]bitrate tolerance too small for bitrate Could not open codec. FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x32315659. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Exiting...