[MPlayer-users] Fitting a big file on a 700mb cd with mencoder?

[Michel Bardiaux]

khurram wrote:

> 
> So i used ffmpeg to encode some file into svcd with this command:
> 
> $ ffmpeg -i movie.avi -target svcd ~/movieout.mpg
> 
> Well, that worked and all, but now i have a really big file:
> 
> 1403389232 Jun 4 02:05 movieout.mpg
> 
> How do i go about fitting this onto a cd? I looked around and it seems  
> that mencoder can do it:
> 
> http://www.designersoft.co.uk/avi_mpeg.html (at the bottom it says how to)
> 
> However, the instructions don't work for me. After i do this command  
> 'mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy INPUT.FILE -o OUTPUT2.FILE -ss VALUE' , i  
> end up getting like a 4kb file. Maybe the instructions/command options 
> are  outdated on that page or maybe i am doing something wrong?
> 
> Thx.
> 
> Using mencoder version:
> MEncoder 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> 
Why dont you post the *exact* commands (the page tells you to use 
mencoder twice!) and their output?

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