[MEncoder-users] specify output format in profile

[Dave P]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 22:19, James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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?

I believe so, yes.  As a workaround, I leave of=mpeg=1 in my
mencoder.conf profiles, and manually add -of mpeg to all of my
commands.

mencoder input.avi -profile 1 -of mpeg -o output.mpg