[MPlayer-users] Encoding Video Tape to DVD

[rcooley]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:55:11 -0400
Dave Szczuka <lists at szczuka.com> wrote:

> mplayer -ac dummy -ao null -vo yuv4mpeg Infomercial.mp4.avi &
> cat stream.yuv | mpeg2enc -f8 -F1 -a2 -o Infomercial.m2v

There's not really much reason to do this.  You can just use mencoder to
encode straight to mpeg2video.  Check the mailing lists, for info on
making VCD/SVCDs with mencoder.  It's very easy to find.