Andrew Church wrote: >> I am trying to make a VCD, or svcd, or x, or something :) >> >> the DVD player I am trying to use understands fatfs, and when I >> ran (from the fast motion post) >> >> transcode \ >> -i x.dv -x dv,null -o x.mpg \ >> -y ffmpeg,null -F h264 --encode_fields p \ >> --frame_interval 400 -J fps=29:1:pre >> >> and burned port2sea.mpg it recoginzed it as 'mpeg' but the display was blank >> when it tried to play it. I also burned some .dv files to the disk, and it >> didn't even show those as options, so I guess it checks some headers to see >> if >> there is a chance of playing it. > > Transcode outputs AVI files by default (and currently doesn't know how to > output MPEG files at all), so giving the file a .mpg extension won't > accomplish much. You can try encoding the video as a raw MPEG-2 video > stream and see if your DVD player can read that: > > transcode -i x.dv -x dv,null -o x.mpg -y ffmpeg,null -F mpeg2video \ > --encode_fields p --frame_interval 400 --export_asr 2 > > (The final --export_asr option is to specify a standard 4:3 aspect ratio; > if your camera is 16:9, use --export_asr 3 instead.) If that doesn't > work, try renaming x.mpg to x.m2v and running the following command: > > mplex -f8 -o x.mpg x.m2v > > (mplex is from the mjpegtools package, and multiplexes raw video/audio > streams into an MPEG program stream, like the .vob files found on DVDs.) >
bingo. I figured mplex was just to add an audio trac, didn't realize it repackaged too (is that the right term?) Thanks. Carl K
