Mencoder silently quits

[gggg08@…]

Hello. Encountered weird situation when MEncoder just quits encoding without giving any error or information. MPlayer on the other hand can play file just fine.
Command line "mencoder -demuxer mkv "path_to_file" -o temp.avi -vf ass,scale=480:272,harddup -af channels=2 -srate 44100 -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=2 -ovc x264 -ffourcc avc1 -x264encopts me=umh:level_idc=13:keyint=250:frameref=2:bframes=0:threads=auto:profile=main:rc_lookahead=60:crf=20 -aspect 16:9 -mc 0 -ass -noskip"
Files to test with (seeded torrents):
​http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=486371
​http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=486652
​http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=486010

[reimar]

Please add full output.
Also, I cannot reproduce the issue using SVN and a cut-down command of
mencoder -o temp.avi -vf ass,scale=480:272,harddup -af channels=2 -srate 44100 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -aspect 16:9 -mc 0 -ass -noskip
(with or without -demuxer mkv makes no difference).
I would need to know whether or not you have this issue even with this command-line, and if not which option causes the issue to appear.

[compn]

i'm guessing this is a distro mencoder crash.
compile mencoder from source or update your package, maybe use deb-multimedia repo.

does our mkv demuxer handle all h264?
try -demuxer lavf instead of -demuxer mkv...