On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 > > -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi" > > I couldn't wait untill lame + libraties were installed,to try it, > So I put up a terminal and proceeded with just this command. > It all looks very impressive. However I haven't a clue where > the output is going, I don't even know what the name of the file is, > in order to look for it. Isn't there some way I could pipe this to my > chosen directory /mnt/ext2-vol6/downloads2/divx. How about a | (pipe) > or a > redirect , or something. > > John > > -- > John Richard Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > P.S. > > 15.26 BST > > I found a file called test.avi which is 5 minutes long and has 77.5Mb > of data in it and plays beautifully in mplayer in divx mode.
This test.avi is the standard output if you do not specify a an output filename, but seeing as you did output it to a file called "Matrix.avi" (just guessing you used my example above), I'm guessing that there is a file-parsing error (one of your options is wrong, probably the use of mp3lame as you don't have it yet). To output to another directory or whatever you have 2 options: Firt "cd" into that directory than run te mencoder command, or in your output command to state the full path of the output file, as in: -o /mnt/big_disk/lots_of_room/Matrix.avi > All I want to do now is redirect it to my spare partition and apply > some compression so that a full length feature film comes in around > 800Mb. Is this possible ? Yes it it. Firstly the compression you are reffering to is the DivX compression, which it does not re-encode, but simple encodes the output from the DVD once (for video) with a standard one-time rip. If you want to get it to around 800MB's there is a formulae for, however this was so long and complicated I actually made a DivX calculator (download it on http://tuxpower.f2g.net/divxcalc.php ), but note that it gives an "accurate" estimate ... you will always be a few MB's above or below. So if you want it to fit onto a CD of let's say 700MB,s try going for a filesize of 680MB's, otherwise you risk the chance that you end op with a file of 710MB's, and then have to begin again just to get it right ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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