oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night.avi # this is my starting movie. i can see it with mplayer and vlc

vulcano-by-night.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 618 x 190, 7.00 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4



oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ mencoder vulcano-by-night.avi -of lavf -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -ovc x264 -o vulcano-by-night.mov 

MEncoder 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x1073e60
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  [FMP4]  618x190  24bpp  7.000 fps  591.1 kbps (72.2 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x34504D46  size:618x190  fps: 7.00  ftime:=0.1429
** MUXER_LAVF *****************************************************************
You have certified that your video stream does not contain B frames.
REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and will generate
INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
*******************************************************************************
OK, exit
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 618 x 190 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is 3.25:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
x264 [warning]: width or height not divisible by 16 (618x190), compression will suffer.
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE 3DNow! 
VIDEO CODEC ID: 28
Writing header...

  (...)

SEEK 5058942

Video stream:  173.329 kbit/s  (21666 B/s)  size: 5045121 bytes  232.857 secs  1630 frames
x264 [info]: slice I:21    Avg QP:23.00  size:  8787
x264 [info]: slice P:1609  Avg QP:26.00  size:  3020
x264 [info]: mb I  I16..4: 43.8%  0.0% 56.2%
x264 [info]: mb P  I16..4: 12.4%  0.0% 10.5%  P16..4: 18.7% 12.8%  4.4%  0.0%  0.0%    skip:41.2%
x264 [info]: kb/s:173.3





oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night.mov

vulcano-by-night.mov: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie



oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ qtstreamize vulcano-by-night.mov vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov

quicktime_delete_vcodec_stub called




oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ file vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov

vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov: Apple QuickTime movie (fast start)





oobscure@box:~/Desktop$ mplayer vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov 

MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Warning unknown option volume at line 11
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing vulcano-by-night-streaming.mov.
MOV: missing data (mdat) chunk! Maybe broken file...
MOV: missing data (mdat) chunk! Maybe broken file...
libavformat file format detected.
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x8817808]Could not find codec parameters (Video: h264, 618x190)
LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed


Exiting... (End of file)