[MPlayer-users] Making a (s)vcd on linux

Sergio del Rio delrio at arrakis.es
Mon Feb 17 00:26:18 CET 2003


On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:56:50PM -0400, Francisco J. León wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I want to make a (s)vcd in linux and i don't have a clue on how to do
> it.
> 
> I found a webpage that explained that using mjpeg tools you had to
> extract the audio and video, then multiplex it , use vcdencoder and then
> burn it with cdrdao.
> 
> The problem is that lav2wav and lav2yuv (in mjpeg tools) say that the
> input movie is not in JPEG 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 format.
> 
> The movie is a plain popular DivX :-) so i tried using mencoder and lavc
> with the mjpeg like this:
> 
> mencoder movie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy -o
> test.avi
> 
> Apparently, the vcd format uses mpeg1 for video (which mencoder
> supports) and mpeg 1 layer 2 for audio (which mencoder does not support)
> 
> Is there something i can do? Sorry for the small off-topic. Maybe i can
> fix the "not a jpeg 4:2:2" issue with mencoder?
> 
> Francisco J. León A.
> VII Semestre de Lic. en Computación
> Maracaibo, Edo. Zulia, Venezuela 
> 

You have a script "mencvcd" in the TOOLS directory that makes VCD and
SVCD, is not very fast coding mpeg but it works.

-- 
     Sergio del Rio
     delrio at arrakis.es



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