[MPlayer-users] help wanted: using mencoder to make NTSC DVD from transport stream

[Aaron Peterson]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:08:28 +0100, Alain Barthélemy
<cassandre at bartydeux.be> wrote:
> Le dimanche 06 mars 2005, 09:32:01 ou environ Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> a écrit:
> > Aaron Peterson wrote:
> >
> > >> mencoder $i -vf scale=720:-2,expand=720:480 -o dvd.mpg \
> > >>             -vc ffmpeg12,mpeg12, \
> > >>             -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \
> > >>             -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> > >>             vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4000:keyint=18:mbd=2:aspect=16/9
> > >>             -oac copy
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> 
> Sorry to enter this thread but it is the same problem to encode DVD
> compliant video files but here from .avi files
> 
> If I test the above instructuion line, I have this problem.
> 
> Forces video codec: ffmpeg12
> Forced video codec: mpeg12
> Cannot dind codec matching selected -vo and video format ...
> 
> Apparently the problem is that I have to have the latest libavcodec.
> I installed this morning the latest MPLAYER CVS and I did not find where
> to get the latest ffmpeg CVS and how/where to install it in order for the
> MPlayer ./configure instruction to find it.
> 
> I need some help for this task.

I was under the impression that the -vc ffmpeg12,mpeg12 option was
only valid if the incoming file was already mpeg1 or mpeg2...  I am
certainly not any kind of authority though...