From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 03:59:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA9716A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de (natsmtp00.rzone.de [81.169.145.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B4343D39 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrips@kordel.de) Received: from nova.kordel.de (p5089E30D.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.227.13]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i23Bxfl7013565 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:59:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.kordel.de (mail.kordel.de [192.6.1.245]) by nova.kordel.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i23BwsK7040100 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:58:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wrips@kordel.de) Received: from kordel.de (edv-9 [192.6.1.179]) by mail.kordel.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i23C3NHu030893 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:03:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wrips@kordel.de) Message-ID: <4045C89C.8010203@kordel.de> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:59:24 +0100 From: Werner Rips User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.24.0.6; VDF 6.24.0.35 Subject: how to transcode X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:59:45 -0000 i'm workin on FreeBSD4.9Release. with the following script i use to transcode regular dvd's so that i can dvdauthor the resulting movie files: mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -vo null -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -of mpeg -nosound -ovc copy -o video.mpeg ffmpeg -hq -b 2000 -vcodec copy -ar 48000 -ac 2 -i audio.wav -i video.mpeg output.mpg tcextract -i output.mpg -x mpeg2 > video tcextract -i output.mpg -x mp3 > audio mplex -f 8 audio video -o movie1-%d but i run into trouble, if i have any kind of avi files. Everything works fine until mplex has to build the new movie files. it complain with a message similar like that: INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/02/04 19:06:14 $) INFO: [mplex] File audio looks like an MPEG Audio stream. **ERROR: [mplex] File video unrecogniseable! **ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting. so, please tell me how can i tcextract from some avi files so that mplex can do its job? is there a better (shorter) way to come to movie files that i can dvdauthor? thanks in advance werner