From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 07:12:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A28216A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7307243D49 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i2TFDIKG016648; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:13:18 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:13:18 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: Jim Hatfield In-Reply-To: <4sbg6016p2dr010pkijmvfp6g1mn55hklp@4ax.com> Message-ID: <20040329120907.K6891-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -100 () USER_IN_WHITELIST X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD -> SVCD with FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:12:03 -0000 On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote: > I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at > least not with libavcodec). The version from the mplayer site > will, but the results look like "modern art". I got the same > with transcode, though it's a while since I used it. ffmpeg > won't even build on my AMD-Duron based 5.1 machine (though > to be fair it will on my PIII Celeron 4.9 machine). The package > of ffmpeg doesn't support mpeg2 encoding. mjpegtools has an > mpeg2 encoder but not a decoder. Here's what I do: I decode the MPEG to YUV using mplayer, then reencode back to MPEG using mjpegtools. if you're short on disk space, create a named pipe called stream.yuv and have yuvscaler read from it while runing mplayer on another window :) Fer