[MEncoder-users] specify output format in profile

[James Hastings-Trew]

Dave P wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 00:20, James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>
>>     
> I don't have an answer, but can confirm that it has been an issue for
> a long time.  Since I don't use svn, I never filed a proper bug
> report.
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2007-April/005708.html
>   
If I'm reading that right, it is the error message that is wrong, not 
the resultant file. Is that right?