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From: Jim Hatfield <subscriber@insignia.com>
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Subject: DVD -> SVCD with FreeBSD?
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If anyone is successfully converting DVDs to SVCD (or
MPEG2 formats in general) I'd appreciate knowing what tools
they use.

I have been fine producing MPEG4 files with mencoder, but I
now have a networked video player (Hauppauge MediaMVP) which
doesn't support MPEG4 but supports MPEG2 just fine.

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=20
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=20
mpeg2 encoder but not a decoder.

It seems like no matter what I try there is some problem which
blocks me. I would hate to have to revert to a Windows solution
for this.

jim