[MPlayer-users] Uh... wierdness?

[Taylor Smith]

Thanks to everyone for the help, and sorry I left out the DVD info, I 
always forget something. I've upgrated to the new version and I'll try 
again as soon as I have time. 
 
Thanks again, 
Taylor Smith 
 
> 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 
>  
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