[MPlayer-users] Making VCD / SVCD from rendered animation?

[Brett Kosinski]

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> A problem has come up. I get the following when doing the video encoding step:
>
> [ 5:26PM] ..ics/spaceflight # cat frames.fifo|ppmtoy4m -F 30000:1001|mpeg2enc
> -f 4 -F 4 -a 2 -n n
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m] Command-line Parameters:
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]              framerate:  30000:1001
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]     pixel aspect ratio:  1:1
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]              interlace:  none/progressive
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]         starting frame:  0
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]            # of frames:  all, until input exhausted
>    INFO: [ppmtoy4m]     chroma subsampling:  4:2:0, JPEG/MPEG-1, interstitial
> siting
> **ERROR: [ppmtoy4m] Expecting maxval == 255, not 65535!

Hmm... according to the ppmtoy4m manpage, the input PPMs must contain 8
bits per channel.  According to the error output, you have 16 bits per
channel... conversion error?

Brett.