[MPlayer-users] Creating mpeg1 with Mencoder (0.90pre10)

[Stefan Lange]

Ulrich Petri wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> i'm trying to create a mpeg1 file from a mpeg2pes (recorded from a dvb
> card).
> 
> I'm using the following command:
> # mencoder -vop scale=352:288 -oac copy -ovc lavc \
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1152 \
> 001.vdr -o 001.vdr.mpg

[...]

> 
> which looks imho quite good.
> BUT I have some problems with it:
> - why does it create an AVI header
> - why does it use "mpg1" as FOURCC (Windows Mediaplayer does not
> recognize this)
> - the output file is complely garbled when viewed with Windows
> Mediaplayer (even when stripping the avi header)
> - virtualdub does not recognize the file (neither with nor w/o avi
> header)
> 
> so therefore: please help!
> What did i do wrong?
> 


mencoder only supports avi-files as output-format

try mjpegtools



> Cu Ulrich
> 
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