[MPlayer-users] Mencoder help please. Full HOWTO?

[Net Dragon]

>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
>> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hey all. I am a little new to Mplayer/Mencoder.
>> I am trying to take the muxed MPEG2 streams off my ex-roommates TIVO,
>> 743 miles away (My linux box is hosted there) and compress a 2 hour
>> clip, including commercials, to something around 700 megs so it will
>> fit on a CD-R. I have scoured the net looking for HOWTO_s or guides or
>> anything. I have read through the documentation but I just can not
>> seem to find anything on getting Mencoder to work. I am looking for
>> just that, a HOWTO or guide or something. If anyone can help it would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Hmm.. did you had a look at encoding.html ?
> If yes, could you tell us where you had problems understand it, so we
> could imporve it ?

Hmm.. I thought I looked through that, I will look again. If I see any
room for improvment I will suggest. I thought I looked everywhere for
something, thinking that Mencoder was not well documented, but it seems I
just could nto find the document. }:p

>> I would just downloads the 3.2gig stream, but it takes 3 days and FTP
>> seems to give up after 2.1gigs.
>
> This sounds like your ftp client is not capable of handling big files
> (ie files bigger than 2G), use a better client (i guess ncftp should be
> able if you use a current kernel and libc)

Well I am not sure. I use the Win32 Console App port of Wget for big
files. May be a limit of ProFTPd as well. WHo knows.

>> The original res on the TIVO
>> streams is 480x480 with non square pixels. And the bitrate is VBR but
>> hovers around 4 to 6Mbit or so I would guess. I would prefer to get it
>> to 640x480, deinterlaced DivX or what ever. My Linux box is only an
>> Athlon 600MHz & 256megs RAM, but I can just let it sit there and chunk
>> away on the video for a day or two right?
>
> Hmm.. this sounds pretty much like one of examples in encoding.html.
>
>
> 			Attila Kinali

I certainly hope so! Thanks so much for your reply.

- Jason "NetDragon" Howard