[MPlayer-users] Recoding to VCD Using MEncoder Only

[Gordan Bobic]

Is there any reason why this cannot be done? I presume that it cannot be 
done, since I have found the mencvcd script in the TOOLS directory 
which seems to use an exceedingly long winded way of recoding files 
into VCD format, using mjpegtools.

I think I have managed to get the mencoder setup almost right to achieve 
the same thing without the clutter of all the other seemingly inferior 
tools and overheads of doing the same job several times, but I am stuck 
in one last tiny detail.

Here is the script I use:

#!/bin/bash
mencoder	-oac lavc	\
		-ovc lavc	\
		-ofps 25	\
		-of mpeg	\
		-lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg1video:acodec=mp2:vbitrate=1150:abitrate=224:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_maxrate=1150	
\
		-vf scale=352:288,dsize=4/3	\
		-af resample=44100:0:2	\
		$1 -o $2

This seems to work really well, except for one small problem - the
"-af resample=44100:0:2" part doesn't seem to do what the documentation 
says it should (or maybe I am reading it wrong).

I have videos encoded with varying frequencies other than 44100 (e.g. 
22050, 48000), and I have to make this into 44100 to make it VCD 
compliant. However, the files encoded using the above script still have 
the same audio frequency (confirmed using "mplayer -identify") as the 
source file. The video seems to be in the correct format, but the audio 
is not.

What I am I doing wrong? I would really like to avoid using the 
mjpegtools script if at all possible because it takes much longer.

TIA.

Gordan