[MPlayer-users] May be atupid question/requirement

[Nico Sabbi]

VJ wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nico Sabbi" <nsabbi at tiscali.it>
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, features, bugreports" 
> <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] May be atupid question/requirement
>
>
>> VJ wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>     I was just wondering if this functionality is already present or
>>> can be implemented, if not present, in mplayer. I capture programs
>>> using MythTV and encode them to mpeg2video using mencoder using
>>> 2-pass. Quality is perfect. After encoding I use Ulead DVD
>>> MovieFactory for make DVD's. I see that it has to
>>> demultiplex/remultiplex the video and audio streams to get VOB
>>> compatible files/streams. Is it possible to have this in mencoder
>>> itself so that the time of demultiplex/remultiplex is saved? I assume
>>> that streams are multiplexed during encoding as well when mencoder
>>> writes to ouput file. It will be great if mencoder starts supporting
>>> something like following
>>>
>>> -of vob
>>> -of vcd
>>> -of avi (it does already)
>>> -of mpeg(it does already)
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards from
>>> VJ
>>>
>>> PS: I know about mplex program but I am being just too lazy :-) and I
>>> want this mencoder thing to be my swiss-army knife for my encoding
>>> purposes.
>>
>>
>>
>> you may try this patch, but it's still under heavy development; I've
>> been successfully using it for some time noe,
>> so it should work well. Use it this way:
>>
>> ./mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -ovc ... -oac ... -o file.mpg
>> <original file>
>>
>> You can also use some additional parameters (in -mpegopts) such as
>> init_apts, init_vpts and init_adelay
>> (only negative at the moment) to fix asynchrony.
>>
>> The final file can be passed to dvdauthor.
>>
>> Please let me know if it works for you.
>>
>>    Nico
>>
>
> Hi Nico
>    Thanks for the reply. I will try your patch. In the meanwhile I was 
> looking in the file ffmpeg/libavformat/mpeg.c and I found the 
> following line at the bottom of that file:
>    av_register_output_format(&mpeg1system_mux);
>    av_register_output_format(&mpeg1vcd_mux);
>    av_register_output_format(&mpeg2vob_mux);
>    av_register_output_format(&mpeg2svcd_mux);
>    av_register_output_format(&mpeg2dvd_mux);
>
> Does that mean that the functionality I require is already there even 
> without your patch? I will try your patch later today.
>
> Thanks again
> VJ
>
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using ffmpeg yes, but there's no way to use libavformat by means of mencoder