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'

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. Interesti

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

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 wh