[MEncoder-users] My partial success trying to make part of DVD a streaming Internet video.

[tom friedel]

My main question is at bottom, if I can create a file for Windows Media
Player that will stream.  I am
also open to suggestions about my command line, and better compression. 
Thank you in advance, here goes...

Someone sent me section of a DVD and I was able to copy the files to my
hard disk and access like

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /var/www/html/dvd

My goal was to make the output Web file a lower resolution, compress as
much as possible, and put on Internet. 
After much reading of newsgoups, I came up with

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /var/www/html/dvd  -afm ffmpeg -vfm ffmpeg
-oac mp3lame -lameopts br=48 -ovc lavc  -lavcopts
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vqscale=10 -vf scale=270:135  -o
movie_abr48_q10_270_120.avi

which makes a video that works very well.  However it seems I am still
getting about 20% worse
compression than I see on the news.yahoo.com videos.  

My biggest problem, however, is the video does play with Windows Media
Player, but it does not
stream.  It is 10 MB so takes minutes to load/start, and you only see a
blank screen.  I have tried giving my
file a .mpeg or .avi extension.  If I run mencoder with -of mpeg I get
many lines like
Unknown block type, possibly non-MPEG stream!   6mb  A-V:0.057 [0:0] and
a bad output file.

Someone wrote me this about streaming video files (last two
paragraphs).  I have not seen much
supporting documentation for this.  Is this true?

thank you very much in advance,
tom
http://www.readyink.com

yes, this is where you either 1) Pay Microsoft for Windows hosting including
streaming or 2) Convert the file from it's current .avi format [which puts the ident
at the end of the file] to a .mpeg [which puts the ident at the beginning allowing
the file to stream].

Personally, I would go with #2 and use .mpeg (quicktime) formats. These are
more standard than microsoft's avi which contain to many codec's to be
viable.








  Someone wrote me.