[MEncoder-users] Trouble transcoding 1080i "video" to NTSC DVD

[Nico Sabbi]

Walter Belhaven wrote:

>Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:
>  
>
>>unfortunately, when I developed the current mpeg muxer I could only
>>test it on a very permissive dvd stb. Now that I have replaced it
>>with
>>a less permissive one I can experience the same stuttering.
>>In short: I have begun to rewrite parts of the code to respect
>>certain
>>buffering constraints that  are  currently ignored, but it's a quite 
>>difficult task
>>that is only half way. In the meantime try to use -of lavf -lavfopts 
>>format=dvd.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Nico,
>
>Thanks for the reply.  I'll check into lavf.  Do I understand correctly
>that it's the "mpeg container" that's causing the problem?  
>

yes

>If so, I
>should be able to use my same command line, with the exception of
>outputting a raw video stream (m2v), then muxing that with the AC3
>audio stream in another application.  Is that correct?
>
>  
>
yes.
BTW, I forgot to add an important particular: when using -of lavf you should
never encode with B-frames