[MPlayer-users] is this an acceptable forum for asking about SVCD creation using mencoder?

[GD Lewis]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 07:42, Juergen Hammelmann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2002 00:32 schrieb Felix Buenemann:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Monday 17 June 2002 23:10, David Nedved wrote:
> > > I tried:
> > > # cat foo.wmv | mencvcd foo -noburn
> >
> > I think it's supposed to be used like mencvcd foo -noburn foo.wmv
> yes! That is the correct form!
> 

when I try this I get a few errors:

$  mencvcd test -noburn test.avi
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] No norm specified, cannot determine VCD output
size. Please use the -n option!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error
(failed read/write)!
*** [vo] Exporting mp_image_t, 320x240x12bpp YUV planar, 115200 bytes
~/bin/mencvcd: line 306:  9341 Broken pipe             mplayer
-noframedrop -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm -waveheader -v -osdlevel 0 $sub
$params
**ERROR: [mp2enc] Input not a WAV file - starts not with "RIFF"
**ERROR: [mp2enc] failure reading WAV file

Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong or is that mpegtools is not
working?  I forced it in from RPM.

I pretty much get the same errors if I do it manually as well by playing
the YUV stream to a pipe and then trying to encode from that, though
then the errors are different:

$ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao null -vop  -aspect 4:3 test.avi

(in another console)

$  mpeg2enc -a2 -f1 -F5 -v2 -o target.m1v < stream.yuv

Yields this:

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] pel_aspect_ratio must be between 1 and 14 (MPEG-1)

I'm really new to all this.  Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?

-- 
Grant D. Lewis

running Redhat Linux 7.3 "Valhalla" kernel 2.4.18-3 on a i686
"Those who define new paradigms for the world are often considered odd
at first"