Thanks to BenDL, here's my a variation on problem solved I think: cat scripts/divxmake.sh # script starts mencoder $1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o $1.divx.avi mencoder $1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -oac copy -o $1.divx.avi # script ends.
Does a 2 pass encode to divx format, adapted from here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg4.html Thanks Ben Stu On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 20:34, Paul Robinson wrote: > Subtle :) > > Forgot the ole "try a 2 instead of to" trick. Downloading mpeg2avi as we > speak... or type... > > Apologies for the HTML seems I'd neglected to add SLUG to the > Thunderbirds list of plain text recipients. > > Thanks again, > Paul > > Stuart Guthrie wrote: > > >Sorry Paul, > > > >No idea, but while the list is at it, I'm keen to go AVI to MPEG!! > > > >Tried avi2mpeg but the command failed. ;-) > > > >Any ideas > > > >Stu > > > >BTW HTML email is a bad look for character mail readers. > > > > > > > >On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 19:56, Paul Robinson wrote: > > > > > >>Evening All, > >> > >>Trying to provide a method of showing video clips in a web based > >>"player" that's written in flash. Flash has it's own limitations in > >>that it can only play Quicktime or SWF movies. I've found a Linux > >>based app that converts AVI files to SWF, however I can't find > >>anything that can convert MPEG to SWF. So the logical next step was to > >>try and find a way to convert MPEG to AVI. Unfortunately Google comes > >>up with nothing but noise and the SLUG archives reveal zip. > >> > >>Oh and it's got to be able to do it from the command line as I'll be > >>calling it via PHP. > >> > >>If anyone can offer up any advice it'd be much appreciated. > >> > >>TIA, > >>Paul > >> > >> > >>______________________________________________________________________ > >>-- > >>SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > >>Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > >> > >> > > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
