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    copied!<p>I am using the following Mencoder command as part of a perl script that burns subtitles for different MP4 videos.</p> <pre><code>mencoder -profile h264mp4 source_file.mp4 -subcp utf8 -sub subtitle_file.srt -o destination_file.mp4 &gt;&gt; /dev/null </code></pre> <p>This has been working for over a year without problems and it is now giving the following fatal error when run:</p> <pre><code>** MUXER_LAVF ***************************************************************** REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and can generate INCORRECT files in the presence of B-frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong! ******************************************************************************* FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. ffmpeg version 0.7.15, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built on Feb 22 2013 07:18:58 with gcc 4.4.5 configuration: --enable-libdc1394 --prefix=/usr --extra-cflags='-Wall -g ' --cc='ccache cc' --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libtheora --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libspeex --enable-nonfree --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter --enable-libdirac --disable-decoder=libdirac --enable-libfreetype --enable-libschroedinger --disable-encoder=libschroedinger --enable-version3 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-librtmp --extra-libs=-lgcrypt --disable-altivec --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-vis libavutil 50. 43. 0 / 50. 43. 0 libavcodec 52.123. 0 / 52.123. 0 libavformat 52.111. 0 / 52.111. 0 libavdevice 52. 5. 0 / 52. 5. 0 libavfilter 1. 80. 0 / 1. 80. 0 libswscale 0. 14. 1 / 0. 14. 1 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 </code></pre> <p>This are the contents of the h264mp4 profile:</p> <pre><code>[h264mp4] profile-desc="H.264 MP4" vf=pullup,softskip,pp=fd,hqdn3d,harddup lavdopts=threads=2 ovc=x264=yes x264encopts=crf=22:subq=6:frameref=6:qcomp=0.8:8x8dct=yes:weight_b=yes:me=umh:partitions=p8 x8,i4x4:nodct_decimate=yes:trellis=1:direct_pred=auto:level_idc=30:nocabac=yes:threads=auto oac=faac=yes faacopts=br=128:raw=yes:mpeg=4:tns=yes:object=2 of=lavf=yes lavfopts=format=mp4 sws=9 ofps=24000/1001 srate=48000 </code></pre> <p>I get the same error on my Debian Squeeze and on Amazon's Bitnami servers.</p> <p>Both were updated recently so my guess is that the new packages don't like either the command line or the profile parameters.</p>
 

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