On 11/12/2009 11:54 PM, Alexander Roalter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I recently got a new SVN version of mplayer, which needed a fresh git > pull of x264 (which is now libx264.so.79). > > After building mencoder, and running the following line, mencoder runs > for about 10 minutes or a bit more, then stops and does nothing, CPU > usage is at 0%, ps ax shows 'Sl+' or 'Sl' as status, nothing else. I > cannot press Ctrl+C, only killing it (with SIGKILL) will terminate > mencoder, SIGTERM (and of course SIGINT) does nothing. > > I use the following line: > > mencoder infile -o outfile -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr=128 -ovc x264 > - -x264encopts bitrate=512:pass=1:turbo=1:threads=8 -vf $scale -srate > 44100 -ofps 24 > > > (the 2nd pass would look like this, if it ever came to this:) > mencoder infile -o outfile -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr=128 -ovc x264 > - -x264encopts > bitrate=512:subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:pass=2:threads=8 > - -vf $scale -srate 44100 -ofps 24 > > Two days earlier, I was able to compress a movie this way (I'm doing it > exactly this way for now more than two years), but on the end of the 2nd > pass I got a segmentation error (which now I cannot reproduce since it > freezes on the first pass). > > So my question is, if someone experienced something similar with > encoding, and/or if my used options are somewhat outdated and therefore > causing the problem... > > On my machine I was usually able to attain a speed of ~230 fps on the > first pass and ~120fps on the 2nd pass, but now I only get 180fps on the > first pass... > > - -- > Cheers, > Alex A follow-up to the problem: I still get the freezes with recent mplayer and x264. If I use only one thread (instead of 8), I don't get the freezes, but I also get only a fraction of the speed: 1st pass 80fps, 2nd pass 40fps :( -- Cheers, Alex
