[MPlayer-users] encoding

[Gerrit Holl]

Hi,

I'm trying to encode various different file formats to mpg or avi, but
I'm unable to succeed. The resulting AVI seems to be broken. I try to
use commansd like the following:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -ni rtsp://streams3.omroep.nl/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20031109.rm
mencoder -o test.avi -ovc copy -oac copy mms://195.121.244.220/TKStream3
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy Gezondheidsplein\ \(NEDERLAND\ 1\,\ 17\ 35\,\ dinsdag\ 22\ oktober\ 2002\).asf

I don't know much about video encoding or playing, so I can't describe
what it's called what I see, I see various blocks in the video which
seem not to be updated. During encoding I get errors like:

Too many video packets in the buffer: (3648 in 8390104 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
Pos: 251.6s   6987f ( 0%)  15fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.064 [475:352]

...although I do use -ni. I also get:

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 233.0s   5814f (99%) 152fps Trem:   0min   4mb  A-V:0.019 [113:31]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 233.4s   5824f (99%) 152fps Trem:   0min   4mb  A-V:0.023 [113:32]

I can't find anything in the documentation about this, but since I have
little knowledge about the subject, it may be that I'm not looking well.
I have looked at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#faq-encoding
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/
(the mailing list archive seems to be broken, by the way, so I was
unable to look at it. I'm sorry if this is a FAQ which isn't listed in
the FAQs)

I would be grateful if someone could either explain me the problem or
point me to a place where the problem is explained.

yours,
Gerrit.