On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:44:51 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following:
> > I haven't used mencvcd but when I make VCD's using transcode I end up > > with 2 files, one video -.mpv, and one audio -.mp2, the next step for > > me is to > > Could you post a sample transcode line? > > Once in a while I have problems with mencvcd so I'm looking for other > things to try. Last one I did was 'The Siege" and following your hint I > tried mplex and eventually got something I could split up to two CDs. > After burning both images I was surprised that my set top DVD player > recognized them (VCD 1.1 format). It's a low end Koss, and isn't really > supposed to be able to play VCDs. (With VCD 2.0, I hear audio only and a > badly rolling B&W picture). > > I have one that I burned to AVI simply because there were problems > reading the stream with mencvcd (maybe it's cooker, not sure why, or > maybe it's the DVD). I will continue to experiment, though. > > DVD:Rip IMHO is too much although it does do a good job, it has so many > processes running in the background and takes nearly 18 hours to do one > DVD on my 1000 mhz Athlon. I can mencoder one to an AVI in about 1/2 > that time. > > avisplit is a good tool to split AVIs. I don't recall what I used > presently to split the resulting VCD image into CD-sizes - it might have > been vcdimager. The one problem I experienced in the last VCD I did (and > so far the only one) is an increasing lack of synchronization (it's > subtle, but it is a noticeable delay, and of course it is disconcerting > to hear the audio and one or two seconds later see the mouth move). > > How do you (or others) take care of the synchronization problem? I would recommend joining the mjpegtools mailing list (or at least browsing the archive), there are some people on there who are magicians with this stuff. I've never actually tried to rip a DVD, so I don't have much info on that. As far as synchronization, I do know with mencvcd that you sometimes have to set the video frame rate like so: mencvcd outputfilename -svcdout -tvnorm n -vfr 1 -a <aspect> inputfilename That sets the framerate to the standard 24:1001, which has always, with one exception, been dead on. Oh, and count yourself lucky, on my poor old P3 866 it takes well over 24 hours to encode an SVCD of a live action movie, and that's *per CD*, so more than two days for the full movie. That's why I mostly just do animated stuff for my daughter to watch on the DVD player. 'A Bugs Life' should be finishing up in just about an hour ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 08:13:19 up 20 days, 19:58, 6 users, load average: 1.34, 1.23, 1.19 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..."-- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing television news
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