>> mplex -f8 -o x.mpg x.m2v
>>
>> (mplex is from the mjpegtools package, and multiplexes raw video/audio
>> streams into an MPEG program stream, like the .vob files found on DVDs.)
>>
>
>bingo. I figured mplex was just to add an audio trac, didn't realize it
>repackaged too (is that the right term?)
Technically it's "multiplex" (hence the program name "mplex"), meaning to
merge several data streams into a single one. With MPEG, the multiplexed
data stream is called a "program stream", and it contains segments of data
from each original data stream (video, audio, subtitles, and such) in
sequence, along with extra data to say which stream each segment of data
comes from. In your case there's only one original data stream--the video
stream--but the concept is the same; many video players rely on the extra
information in the MPEG program stream to figure out how to play the video,
so you still need to run the multiplexing step for those players to work
correctly.
Just in case you were curious. (:
--Andrew Church
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