[MPlayer-users] Converting High res. Mpeg to Low res. Mpeg for dvd.

[Jonathan Bartlett]

Use mplayer with -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm and then use mjpegtools to do the
encoding.  If you look around on my site (http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/)
I've got a script that will recode files into VCD-compatible MPEG1, you
could easily adapt it to do MPEG2 or similar at whatever bitrate you
watned

Jon

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, chris john wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi I record tv shows on my computer. And like to burn them to dvd's but
> the problem is DVD-Rs are costing me a fortune. So how can i convert the
> Hi-Resolution dvd format files to Low resolution files. I ussually use
> TMPenc to set up the dvd on windows. But i was wondering if i could use
> mencoder to convert the files. I can't find a windows product to do this
> easily. So i was just wondering if someone on the list could send me the
> command line options for mencoder that would convert the movies. I haven't
> been able to find this is the literature about mencoder. Most of the dvd
> stuff is related to ripping and i want to do the oppisite. When i try and
> convert the video the way i know how i get an error message in TMPEGenc
> saying "a video sequence header is necessary for every GOP in a standard
> DVD". So i just need some help here figureing out how to fix this. Most
> programs will convert say an avi to an low-resolution DVD format, but not
> a hi-res DVD to a low-resolution format. Any help is appreciated. and
> Thanks.
>
> chris.
>
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