[FFmpeg-user] FW: Converting AVI files and creating a DVD

[John Bennett]

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> From: hornetster at hotmail.com
> To: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: RE: [FFmpeg-user] Converting AVI files and creating a DVD
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:26:43 +1000
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> > To: ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org
> > From: cehoyos at ag.or.at
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:19:46 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] Converting AVI files and creating a DVD
> >
> > John Bennett <hornetster <at> hotmail.com> writes:
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> > > Anyone got any suggestions for this? Need any more info?
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> > If you want support on this mailing list, please post your complete (mininmal
> > = as short as possible) command line together with the complete, uncut console
> > output.
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Please ignore my last email... was converting the wrong file. :-(

Trying to convert AVI files in Opensuse12.1 x64, kde4.7.2, ffmpeg 0.9.1-1.1

Command line and resultant output:

john at boss:/home/bigun/Movies/ErinWed/AVI> ffmpeg -i FILE0006.AVI -target pal-dvd FILE0006.mpg
ffmpeg version 0.9.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers                                    
  built on Jan  6 2012 11:01:08 with gcc 4.6.2
  configuration: --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-gpl --enable-x11grab --extra-cflags='-fmessage-length=0 -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -fPIC -I/usr/include/gsm' --enable-debug --disable-stripping --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libdirac --enable-avfilter --enable-libvpx --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-pthreads --enable-librtmp
  libavutil    51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
  libavcodec   53. 42. 4 / 53. 42. 4
  libavformat  53. 24. 2 / 53. 24. 2
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 53. 0 /  2. 53. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
Input #0, avi, from 'FILE0006.AVI':
  Metadata:
    date            : 2009-10-21
    ICRT            : 14:02:39
    comment         : 
  Duration: 00:00:03.40, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12530 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (H264 / 0x34363248), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: adpcm_ima_wav ([17][0][0][0] / 0x0011), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 384 kb/s
[buffer @ 0x649b60] w:1280 h:720 pixfmt:yuv420p tb:1/1000000 sar:1/1 sws_param:
[scale @ 0x64c5e0] w:1280 h:720 fmt:yuv420p -> w:720 h:576 fmt:yuv420p flags:0x4
Incompatible sample format 's16' for codec 'ac3', auto-selecting format 'flt'
[ac3 @ 0x649ee0] channel_layout not specified                                                          
[ac3 @ 0x649ee0] No channel layout specified. The encoder will guess the layout, but it might be incorrect.                                                                                                   
Output #0, dvd, to 'FILE0006.mpg':                                                                     
  Metadata:
    date            : 2009-10-21
    ICRT            : 14:02:39
    comment         : 
    encoder         : Lavf53.24.2
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 6000 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, flt, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 -> mpeg2video)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (adpcm_ima_wav -> ac3)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[mpeg2video @ 0x645460] rc buffer underflow
frame=   88 fps= 46 q=2.0 Lsize=    2836kB time=00:00:03.42 bitrate=6785.2kbits/s dup=1 drop=15        
video:2593kB audio:187kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.992139%



 so I can create a DVD (70 odd shorter files.

 They are off a Kogan video camera (read: pretty cheap, generic from SE Asia). Have tried various things to convert/publish and always seem to get a DVD that starts playing OK, but after a minute or 2 starts faltering, won't FF or jump to next chapter etc.
Couple of command lines I have tried:
ffmpeg -i <input filename> -target pal-dvd -sameq <output filename>
ffmpeg -i <input filename> -target pal-dvd <output filename>
etc (not very inventive... Know next-to-nothing about ffmpeg, but willing to learn!)
Have then tried to author/burn the DVD with kdenlive/devede.
Any help appreciated!

Thanks, John.