[MPlayer-users] convert *.avi to vcd/scvd

[Jonathan Bartlett]

> #! /bin/sh
> mkfifo stream.yuv
> mplayer -nofs -nosound -vo yuv4mpeg -ni -quiet -fps 24 $1 </dev/null &

This could be your problem.  mplayer, at least for me, crashes if I
background it.  Try running it in the foreground, and put the next
statement before it, and background _that_ one.  One problem with that is
that you then have to manually wait for the encoding to finish.

I have a makeVCD script available at
http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/computers/multimedia/

Jon