[mythtv-users] Re:mencoder gives black video?

Andy Davidoff dert at pobox.com
Thu Apr 3 13:17:06 EST 2003


Andrew's patch is the archives, which are linked to from the Myth website
at www.mythtv.org.  Make sure you search both the dev and users lists.


On Apr 03, at 08:50, Joe S encoded a 0.9K recording:
> I did not know about that patch, the only one I found was:
> http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/mythtv/
>
> In fact I only found one mention of that patch you described, but can't
> find a download location.
>
> Some people have said that "mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy" will give a file
> playable on a windows machine.  I have not had any success with this.
> Gspot shows that it is divx4/opendivx and that the codec is installed,
> but I still get blank or black video.  I would really like to get this
> functionality to work as well.  I have tried playing the file on multiple
> machines with no luck.


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