From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 17:14:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E9116A400 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from smtp2.sccoast.net (smtp2.sccoast.net [66.153.203.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A86713C46E for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:14:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from 34.158-pool-avail-mi.sccoast.net ([66.153.158.34]:51382 helo=volatile.chemikals.org) by smtp2.sccoast.net with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvcbY-0000Ib-TV; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:14:01 -0400 Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l55HDxJr033521; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:13:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:13:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Wes Morgan To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20070605.095903.-432838228.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <20070605131128.A13943@volatile.chemikals.org> References: <20070604.221510.1678771821.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070605162424.0510a425@localhost> <20070605.095903.-432838228.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making clips Windows Media Player likes X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:02 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20070605162424.0510a425@localhost> > Norberto Meijome writes: > : On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:15:10 -0600 (MDT) > : "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : > : > Is there a secret to making video clips that windows media player > : > likes? So far, all the ones I've done result in a fatal error at the > : > end. Is there a code/format I should specify to make things good? > : > > : > The source material is DV video that I've encoded with Kino and then > : > split apart to get a few short (~10s) clips that are the highlights. > : > : what encoding? wmv? > > The clips are currently encoded for a DVD in mpeg2video format. > > Warner If you still have the DV source, you can use mencoder to encode them into an AVI container. If you plan on burning them to a DVD, have a look at multimedia/tovid. I've only ever used it with XviD and DivX avi's, but it seems likely to fit the bill. It should handle anything that mencoder can play. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection