[MEncoder-users] encoding multimedia files to dvd video

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--- Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>     I hope this is the right place to ask this if
> not please redirect me 
> appropriately. I've got some multimedia files, some
> .avi, some .wmv, some 
> .mpg files that i'd like to encode in to
> ntsc-compliant dvd video so i can 
> play them on my standard dvd player. These video
> files are in a variety of 
> formats, pal mostly so i'm going to need to convert
> them, and ideally during 
> the conversion i'd like to take the audio from
> stereo to 5.1 surround sound. 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 and i have installed from
> ports mplayer version 
> 0.99.10_13, mencoder version 0.99.10, and ffmpeg
> ffmpeg-2007.07.12_3, in 
> addition to their dependencies. I've also got
> dvdauthor because i want to 
> make menus on this dvd so i can select what item to
> watch, but that's for 
> another list.
>     I've had success though not made totally dvd
> compliant videos with the 
> following shell script wrappers:
> 
> makedvd original:
> #!/bin/sh
> mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts
> format=dvd \
> -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af
> lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts \
>
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=9800:keyint=15:aspect=4/3
> 
>  -ofps 25 -o Today1.mpg Today.avi
> 
> This one did not give me the surround sound, nor
> totally dvd compliant 
> video, i wanted aspect 4:3 for full screen and
> 30000/1001 or 24 can't 
> remember the other numbers for frame rate, so i dug
> a little more, reworked 
> it and came up with this script:
> 
> makedvd new:
> #!/bin/sh
> mencoder -channels 6 -oac lavc -lavcopts
> acodec=ac3:abitrate=384 \
> -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts
> format=dvd:tsaf:telecine -ofps 24000/1001 \
> -vf scale=720:480,harddup -srate 48000 -af
> lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts 
> aspect=4/3 \
>
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=9800:keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3
> 
>  -ofps 25 -o Today1.mpg Today.avi
> 
> this one still isn't right.

What was not right with it. Did you read 

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all-ntsc-dvd
?

>     Bottomline is i'm overwhelmed by all the various
> options in the man 
> pages, i understand that ntsc is 30000/1001 frames
> and that wide screen is a 
> different aspect ratio as opposed to full screen,
> the rest of it i am 
> overwhelmed on and would appreciate if someone who
> has done this could write 
> me.
>     Not sure if this next paragraph goes here, if
> not please redirect. 
> During my googling i found encode2mpeg, a frontend,
> which further confused 
> me. I don't think i got it's options right at all,
> but here goes the 
> commandlines i used in case anyone has any input:
> 
> encode2mpeg -dvd -o title -n n inputfile -stdvid 9
> -mpegchannels
> 6 -imageonly -normalize -usespeec -vfr 1 -p
> 
> should take an mpg or avi and convert it to dvd
> video as i want. It does not 
> produce compliant output.
> 
> encode2mpeg -dvd -o title -n n inputfile1 inputfile2
> -stdvid 9 -mpegchannels
> 6 -imageonly -normalize -usespeed -menu
> 

Actually you have not got the all the options right.
encode2mpeg almost always works for me. Only you have
to get the options right.
If you do not have the patience to completely read the
documentation then you could try tovid.

> should take two or more files, encode them and make
> a dvd with menus.
>     Any input on this subject is appreciated, i am
> frustrated and confused 
> by all the various options and outputs  i was under
> the impression this task 
> was not this difficult.
>     Thanks.
> Dave.
>


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