On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:59 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've looked at 'man mplex', but I'm not grokkin' it. In fact I'm not > even absolutely sure it's mplex I should be using on the .mpv and > .mpa. I've had the same thing happen to me when using the mencvcd script. I'm trying now to include the -cdsize option, and hopefully that will make a difference. I didn't manage to get very far on encoding an mp4 file with it - the file in question is 900+megs, far too big to fit on a CD, and 'file' reports it's Apple Quicktime. I'm now trying to use gmencoder on it. mplex is what you want to use. The output of mplex is appropriately sized chunks of the original file. mplex multiplexes the video (mpv) and audio (mpa) components. If you are lucky, you'll get a file that won't be out of sync (audio with respect to video). Currently, that seems to be the main difficulty I'm facing. That, and not having enough intervening disk space to hold all the intermediary copies (avi, mpa, mpv, cd image, etc.) Anyway, if you try: mplex -o movie%d -S 700 movie.mpa movie.mpv you should then get a number of files (movie01 movie02 etc.) which then can be turned into VCD by using vcdimager. > Any pointers appreciated. I should have set the CD size at the > beginning, but this is the first time I've run into an animated flick > that ended up being so huge when encoded :-\ It's not just you - I once ripped an episode of Outer Limits (new) from DVD. A single episode, about 45-50 minutes of video, and the resulting avi file was 1.6 gigs. O my poor hard drive :). gmencoder seems to try and tailor the output to appropriate CD-sized chunks, but that's not all that useful IMHO when the desired output is SVCD or VCD. > JoeHill -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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