[MPlayer-users] Program stream (vob) to transport stream transcoding

[Nico Sabbi]

Dermot McGahon wrote:

> On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:17:23 +0200, Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
>>> What would people recommend for program stream (vobs copied
>>> from dvd with vobcopy) to transport stream, transcoding?
>>
>
>> vls -d file.ts dvd://DIR_TO_VOBS
>> vlc --sout '#std{mux=ts,access=file,url=file.ts}'  dvd://DIR_TO_VOBS
>> (maybe in this last case you should use dvd://@DIR, run vlc --extended).
>
>
> Thanks a million Nico. I presume these are two alternative ways
> of doing this transcoding?
>

uhm, vls seems to be a mostly abandoned project; vlc is much more 
maintained and feature rich.
VLC's muxer seems to have been revamped lately, but I don't know what's 
the difference between
the two muxers


> I was unable to get vls to do this solely from the command line:
>
> [dermot at localhost vobs]$ vls -d file:CATCH_ME_IF_YOU_CAN10-1.ts  
> CATCH_ME_IF_YOU_CAN10-1.vob
> Error: Syntax error in target definition
> Command line launching failed. Aborting.
>
vls -d:file:catch.ts file:catch.vob

> and I don't understand the difference between the two -d file:
> outputs, as described by:
>
> [dermot at localhost vobs]$ vls -help
> VideoLAN Server - version 0.5.5 - (c)1996-2004 VideoLAN
>
>  vls [options] target
>
>  options:
>                        --version      display version and exit
>    -v                  --verbose      verbosity (v, vv, vvv)
>    -h                  --help         display this help
>    -d <target>         --destination  output
>    -f <file>           --file <file>  configuration file
>    -t <number>         --ttl <number> ttl value
>    -l                  --loop         looping at end of program
>                        --log <file>   log to <file>
>
>  target:
>    dvd:<device>     for streaming from a dvd
>    dvd:<dir>        for streaming from a dvd stored on hard drive
>    file:<file>      for streaming from a file
>    dvb:<channel>    for streaming from a dvb channel
>    udp:<ip[:port]>  for streaming in udp to ip
>    rtp:<ip[:port]>  for streaming in rtp to ip
>    file:<filename>  for dumping output to filename
>
> What is the difference between a <file> and a <filename> :)
>

something like prefix and actual content :)


Nico