[x264-devel] problem integration libx264 in ffmpeg

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Michael Eichhorn<devil.69 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> i am not sure which list is better ffmpeg or x264, but i decided
> to contact first yours.
>
> i found a problem in case of integrating libx264 in ffmpeg.
>
> everything is working (configure, make of both libs), but if you
> want to start encoding with a call like:
> "ffmpeg -i test.XXX -vcodec libx264 test_new.XXX"
> there is an error "Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height "
> the error message is thrown by the avcodec_open function of ffmpeg.

Look up at the actual error message that x264 prints, not at the line
ffmpeg prints, which roughly translates to "x264 printed an error,
look up and read it!"

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