[MPlayer-users] mencoder not doing the business

[Stuart Halliday]

I'm using :
MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

on a Windows XP sp2 PC in the UK and having a little trouble with converting 
some uncompressed video to MPEG2 format for putting on a DVD.

The videos are
308x542 and 352x576 both around 35-45GB.
and I tried the following to convert them to 720x576 mpeg2

mencoder "r:\raw\video1.avi" -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts 
format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 
-lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=4/3:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 
-ofps 25 -o video.mpg


I got a error about the -vf scale option and it suggests using a different 
scale option.
The output video is only about the first 5 minutes before it stops.

I tried using -vf scale:pal but that seems not to work.

Any advise for a first time user?

It's probably my fault.... :-)


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Stuart Halliday
http://theaquariumwiki.com/