Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:13 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > === begin script === > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > > > BITRATE="730" > > > > > > INFILE="dvd://" > > > > [snip] > > > > that seems to captu

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-09-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > === begin script === > > #! /bin/sh > > > > BITRATE="730" > > > > INFILE="dvd://" > > [snip] > > that seems to capture from dvd though? I may [not] have mentioned that > I'm capturing from video

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Maybe, the "scale" is wrong for you. How many frame lines do your > > originals have? > > ummm blue :P > > ie. I wouldn't have a clue... how do I tell (not an expert here). If you start mpl

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 28 August 2006 13:39, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and f

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/28/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28 August 2006 14:35, Calvin Walton wrote: > Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change > to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to "24/10001" or "30/10001" > (the first for movies, second for tv shows) NTSC has diff

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 August 2006 14:35, Calvin Walton wrote: > Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change > to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to "24/10001" or "30/10001" > (the first for movies, second for tv shows) NTSC has different frame rates for different *content*? How stra

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. > > > dvd authoring and 2. just compress

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Calvin Walton
On 8/28/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > For DVDs, try this: > > mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ > -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \ > -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_s

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. > > dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. > > For DVDs, try this: > > mencoder -oac la

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. > dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. For DVDs, try this: mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ -vf scale=720:576,harddup

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Nick Rout
If you want to encode to dvd format I highly recommend any2vob or its cousin any2dvd Not in portage AFAIK, but the author provides ebuilds. There is a long thread on forums.gentoo.org about any2vob. Here is the web page for the script: http://sourceforge.net/projects/any2dvd/ http://forums.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Dibb
Iain Buchanan wrote: (I killed it :) So, firstly, why didn't that work? man mplayer -- exporting to MPEG is still not perfect. And secondly, how should I encode if I want to write the movie to a DVD, and have really good quality (close to the original dv)? Use ffmpeg. See the -targe

[gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. This is what I tried last night: mencoder 2006.06.24_09-26-48.dv -o 2006.06.24_09-26-48.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc that was ok, GREAT file size (original 350MB d