[MEncoder-users] specify output format in profile

[James Hastings-Trew]

Jorge Martinez S. wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 23:53, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
>   
>> Jorge Martinez S. wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 18 January 2009 12:29, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> James Hastings-Trew wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I'm trying to make a profile that contains most of my most used command 
>>>>> line options. However, I have come across a problem: If I try to specify 
>>>>> the output format in the profile as:
>>>>>
>>>>> of=rawvideo
>>>>>
>>>>> I get an error that says "Error: suboption 'rawvideo' of 'of' must have 
>>>>> a parameter!
>>>>> Error parsing option of=rawvideo at line 3"
>>>>>
>>>>> If I specify the output format in the profile as:
>>>>>
>>>>> of=rawvideo=1
>>>>>
>>>>> the encode seems to work, but I notice this error going by: "WARNING: 
>>>>> OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help."
>>>>>
>>>>> So it seems I still have to include -of rawvideo on the command line, 
>>>>> and can't include it in the profile. This is with MEncoder 
>>>>> Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (the latest build on Guliani's site). Any ideas 
>>>>> of why this isn't working?
>>>>>           
>> okay...
>>
>> Here's the profile:
>> [264HD]
>> profile-desc="264 HD encoding"
>> of=rawvideo=1
>> sws=9
>> nosound=1
>> mc=0
>> ovc=x264=1
>>     
> You can"t create a raw stream with a x264,  x264 is a library for encoding 
> H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video streams
>   
> x264encopts=qp=18:bframes=4:partitions=all:me=umh:nocabac:nofast_pskip:nodct_decimate:frameref=6:subq=6:mixed_refs:level_idc=31:threads=auto
>   
>> And here's the command line:
>>
>> mencoder input -o output.264 -profile 264HD
>>
>> And the entire output of mencoder, with the warning about the output 
>> format being AVI:
>>
>> MEncoder Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
>> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 
>> 43, Stepping: 1)
>> CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>>
>> WARNING: OUTPUT FILE FORMAT IS _AVI_. See -of help.
>>     
>
> You output default file is obvious a AVI x264/AVC
>   
But this does work:

mencoder input -o output.264 -profile 264HD -of rawvideo

Rawvideo isn't codec related. It's just a dump of whatever the encoder is spitting out, without any file container overhead - no AVI headers, no MP4 container issues with b-frames. Which is what I need.

What doesn't work is specifying the output format in the profile. Like I mentioned the first time I posted the question. Does anyone have a real answer?