[MPlayer-users] Re: help converting avi to flv (my command fails)

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

God damnit, it's always one minute after you post when you figure out the
answer on your own... :)

Since I wasn't specifying the ext on the output file, I have to
use -lavfopts format=flv:etc .

Sorry for the noise.

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

> Hello,
> I got the following command off a blog, but it fails when I try to run it:
> mencoder test1.avi -o testflv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts
> abr:br=64 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavfopts
> i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -lavcopts
> vcodec=flv:keyint=50:vbitrate=300:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3
> 
> with error:
> MEncoder 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU:         Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model:
> 13, Stepping: 8)
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x354270
> AVI file format detected.
> AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> AVI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> VIDEO:  [CRAM]  320x240  16bpp  15.000 fps  3454.5 kbps (421.7 kbyte/s)
> [V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x4D415243  size:320x240  fps:15.00  ftime:=0.0667
> ** MUXER_LAVF
> *****************************************************************
> You have certified that your video stream does not contain B frames.
> REMEMBER: MEncoder's libavformat muxing is presently broken and will
> generate
> INCORRECT files in the presence of B frames. Moreover, due to bugs MPlayer
> will play these INCORRECT files as if nothing were wrong!
>
*******************************************************************************
> CAN'T GET SPECIFIED FORMAT
> Cannot initialize muxer.
> Exiting...
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  Mplayer can play flv files just fine on my system and I have
> all the win32 codecs installed.
> 
> Thanks for the help.