DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Hatfield
If anyone is successfully converting DVDs to SVCD (or MPEG2 formats in general) I'd appreciate knowing what tools they use. I have been fine producing MPEG4 files with mencoder, but I now have a networked video player (Hauppauge MediaMVP) which doesn't support MPEG4 but supports MPEG2 just fine.

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at least not with libavcodec). The version from the mplayer site will, but the results look like modern art. I got the same with transcode, though it's a while since I used it. ffmpeg won't even

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Hatfield
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:13:18 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at Here's what I do: I decode the MPEG to YUV using mplayer, then reencode back to MPEG using mjpegtools. Interesting - I

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-29 08:50]: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:13:18 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at Here's what I do: I decode the MPEG to YUV using mplayer,

Re: DVD - SVCD with FreeBSD?

2004-03-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:22:14 +0100 Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at least not with libavcodec). The version from the mplayer site will, but the results look like modern art. I got the same with transcode, though it's a while