What exactly is not compliant with the mpeg created by ffmpeg (what is vcdimager complaining about)? Is it the audio or video stream or both? For a vcd the maximum video bitrate is 1152kbps (mpeg1 video) and for audio the maximum bitrate 224kbps (mpeg1, layer2 audio). Thats why i used those values in my previous message. Perhaps your dvd players' decoder cannot handle the max values and you need to lower the bitrates manually before it will work. Only way to find out good values is by trial and error. Also, when re-encoding you don't have to do the entire file to see if things are working. You only need a few seconds of output then press q or ctrl-c to abort and see if the result is valid for vcdimager. Saves a lot of time and you can experiment more.
~Scott On January 18, 2003 03:15 pm, Jesse Kline wrote: > Oh man, I am not having much luck with this. Of course I always seem to > have problems making VCDs :-). I was working all day and night yesterday > trying to get this to work. I compiled ffmpeg 0.46. It converted the > video and I made a VCD that played fine on my computer, however when I > put it in my DVD I could not see any video. I noticed that ffmpeg was > not making a vcd compliant mpeg. The farthest I got with it was using > the -s switch to change the videos width and height. I could then see > the video on my DVD, but it would cut out. There was also serious A/V > sync. issues and the audio would cut out on my as well. > I thought that Transcode would be able to convert the video properly so > I downloaded the RedHat 8.0 packages. I tried the examples from the > Transcode web site, as well I compiled Kavi2svcd to see if it would do > it properly. The problem was that no matter what I did I would always > get solid green in the video file. I did some Googling and found some > other people with that problem. All the solutions included either not > using the -V flag or using af6 as the import module instead of divx. > When I used divx without the -V flag the video file was grey and white, > I still could not see anything. I had to compile Transcode myself in > order to get the af6 import module. If I used -x af6 and the -V flag > then I could see the video moving, but the whole thing was still green. > If I didn't use -V but used af6 then I could finally see the video. The > problem is that the colors are all off, and everyones skin is blue. > I have hit a wall on this one. I don't know how to play with the > colors in Transcode to try and fix it, I'm also not sure what else I can > use to try and convert these videos. Any help would be much appreciated. > > > Thank you, > > Jesse
