[MPlayer-users] Uh... wierdness?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Taylor Smith wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
> 
> I tried to rip a DVD to an mpeg4/DiVX AVI that was cropped and scaled
> down but with a 16:9 aspect ratio that could fit onto a CD this way:
> 
> mencoder -dvd 1 -alang en -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame cbr:br=$2 -o frameno.avi

rn frameno.avi and do not use this step. It's broken and now it's been
removed from the manual.

> mencoder -dvd 1 -alang en -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1:vbitrate=1000 -vop crop=720:364:0:56,scale=576:324
> -sws 2 -o movie.avi
> 
> mencoder -dvd 1 -alang en -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vbitrate=1000 -vop crop=720:364:0:56,scale=576:324
> -sws 2 -o movie.avi
> 
> And the file I got cannot be played in Windows Media Player at all, it
> aborts, and when I play it in MPlayer, the A/V is out of sync by about 6
> seconds on average, but it fluctuates throughout the movie, sometimes
> its really close. I didn't see any error messages from MEncoder, it spit
> out "1 Duplicate Frame(s) Detected" (is there a way to turn off that
> notification) so often that if there were any errors, they flew off the
> screen before I could even see them. This was the second DVD I tried and
> I've gotten the same result with each. But I do love the rescaling, and
> the fact that it was able to be in aspect ratio, but as for the rest,
> have I done something wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> --Taylor Smith
> 
> PS: This is an IBM T40, SuSE 9.0, Kernel 2.4.21 (SuSE Build), MPlayer
> 0.92 from the Release, Lame 3.95. 
> 
> And thanks for putting up with a newbie! I know its annoying sometimes!

You left out the most important part: info about the DVD you're
encoding. I expect it's a field-coded PAL dvd.

Rich