[MEncoder-users] mencoder giving up because of too many audio packets?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-06-12, RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using mencoder to transcode the audio in ATSC program
>> streams from A52 to MPEG3. 
>
> MP3 is MPEG-1 Layer 3.  MP2 is MPEG-1 Layer 2.  

Sorry for the typo -- I meant mp2.

> There's no such thing as a MPEG3 codec.

You're right.

>>     mencoder -quiet -noskip -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -oac
>>     lavc -ovc copy -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=256 -fps 30000/1001
>>     -ofps 30000/1001 -vc mpeg12 -o /myth/tmp/convert350.4706.tmp
>>     /myth/tv/2021_20070611020000.mpg MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C)
>
> -noskip almost never works without -mc 0 as well.  Try with both, and/or
> neither.

Will do.

> When encoding to mpeg, you really should use -vf harddup.  You can
> also try removing -of mpeg and see if you have the same problem with
> AVI.

I'll try that as well.

> You can try -vc ffmpeg12 instead, it's more reliable.  You might try
> -oac twolame instead of lavc. 

Thanks for the suggestions.

> You should try a recent SVN snapshot before reporting
> problems.

I'll do that as well, but I have to figure out how to do a SVN
build that won't disrupt my production installation.  I'll need
to get my big-endian audio patch updated for SVN.  It's not
related to the stuff above, but I need it to continue to work.

On the topic of the big-endian audio patch, how does one go
about getting such a patch into SVN?  I submitted it to the
mplayer developer mailing list, but it was ignored.

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