On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Simon Hyde wrote:
> FWIW this all seems a little over-complicated (as does Roger Heflin's
> transcode script). I find the command line required for ffmpeg to be much
> simpler than for mencoder.
For the record I only suggested mencoder to extract the ac3 track,
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Tom Metro wrote:
>>
>> ffmpeg -i source.mpg -target pal-svcd -vcodec copy output.mpg
>
> Will that automagically convert the audio to a suitable format? Transcoding
> AC3 to MP3?
Yup, "-target pal-svcd" will set it up to transcode the video to 25fps
720x576 MPEG 2 with a d
Simon Hyde wrote:
> FWIW this all seems a little over-complicated... I find the command
> line required for ffmpeg to be much simpler than for mencoder.
I agree, and I've also found that ffmpeg is less likely to crash or
produce video with no audio or other anomalies, but in my experience in
usi
Simon,
Moving this to the users, since it has ceased to be a development
question (for the time being, anyway).
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree that the script seems a bit
overly complicated. I will give the ffmpeg approach a try and see
what I get.
Eric
Sim
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Eric Lund wrote:
> Martin,
>
> I managed to get the transcoded files to play cleanly with the sync
> pretty darn close (close enough to fix with a few record button presses)
> by changing the script to generate the following:
>
> mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg -a
