hey froggy1 have you seen the latest svn mplayer?
Its now shipping with vdpau without the need for patches and therein lies the problem.
Trying to re-encode vc-1 hidef files to x264 leads to a
Code:
Starting to encode in: 5 4 3 2 1
MEncoder SVN-r28674-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x80e0f0c
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WVC1] 480x360 24bpp 1000.000 fps 512.0 kbps (62.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x31435657 size:480x360 fps:1000.000 ftime:=0.0010
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8005->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [softskip]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffvc1vdpau] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WVC1 (VDPAU))
==========================================================================
Forcing output FourCC to 30355844 [DX50].
MP3 audio selected.
VDec: vo config request - 480 x 360 (preferred colorspace: VC1 VDPAU acceleration)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Segmentation fault
-> MEncoder has exited with a non-zero status!
-> Exiting in function: mencoder_exit()
Lack of colorspace conversion with mplayer for vdpau-vc1, theres a nvidia patch but this requires you disable x264 so maybe add a bit that for now vdpau should be disabled with --disable-vdpau for the latest svn of mplayer (its enabled by default if the driver is detected)
PS i tried the vc-1 encoded files with all the tools divxenc, h264enc and xvidenc to see if it was limited to one but its a mplayer/vdpau bug