[MPlayer-users] mpeg2video and mpeg_quant don't go along?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Nico wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> ./mencoder  -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vhq:vcodec=mpeg2video:mpeg_quant:vbitrate=800 -nosound -o /dev/null film.avi
> or
> ./mencoder  -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vhq:vcodec=mpeg1video:mpeg_quant:vbitrate=800 -nosound -o /dev/null film.avi
> 
> segfault saying:
> 
> mpeg2 style quantization not supporetd by codec
> 
> If I remember correctly at least mpeg1 could use mpeg_quant.
> 
> I hope to be able to use it soon :)

I agree this is a bug, but it's also nonsense to use the option!
MPEG1/2 always uses mpeg_quant.

Rich