On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Scott Garman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm going a bit crazy trying to do something that I think should be > quite simple. > > I'm creating some screencasts, using GTK RecordMyDesktop. It produces > Ogg Theora video files. I need to convert these to AVI files for later > processing. > > Using mencoder, I'm finding that the framerate and length of the > resulting video does not match the original by a long shot. A 10-minute > ogg video comes out as 7 minutes after transcoding. According to GTK > RecordMyDesktop, the framerate of the original should be 15fps. > > mencoder has two options for framerate. -fps specifies the framerate of > the original file, and -ofps specifies the framerate of the output file. > Setting either or both of these to 15 still does not resolve the issue. > > By trial and error I managed to create an output video of the expected > length by setting -fps to 6.28. But this only applies to that particular > video, and I have dozens more of different lengths to do the same to. > > I've also tried using ffmpeg to do the conversion. It gets the length of > the video correct but degrades the quality substantially, so I'd like to > see if I can get mencoder to work properly. > > Has anyone else encountered this before? I've gone down so many > dead-ends via Google now that my head is spinning. > > Thanks, > > Scott > My advice is to stick with ffmpeg, and play with the quality settings until you get acceptable results. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
