[MPlayer-users] AVI: Missing video stream!? Contact the author, it may be a bug :(

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 10.11.2005 kl. 01.58 skrev Rich Felker:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:42:42PM -0800, RC wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:38:57 +0100
> > Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmm.. maybe the problem the problem is due to limitations in the avi
> > > container format (the 2GB thingy)? 
> > 
> > If you've compiled mplayer with largefile support, and are allowing
> > mplayer to write ODML headers, it should work fine.  This could always
> > be a bug that's already been fixed, so trying latest CVS before
> > reporting bugs is standard.
> > 

It does write ODML headers. I can se it writing them every 2GB, it
prints a message to the command line.

> > > Or can i somehow get *lossless/lowloss* mpeg2 movie directly (*if* my
> > > pc can encode it quicly enough)?
> > 
> > mpeg2video with vqscale=2 and keyint=1 will be practically perfect (no,
> > not lossless), and very fast.
> > 
> > If you want lossless, try huffyuv.
> 
> huffyuv is lossy because it requires rescaling to 4:2:2 sampling.
> You want to use ffhuff for lossless, or ffv1 (slow but better
> compression).
> 
I think i got an error message saying something about YUV12 format not
supported when i tried to use huffyuv. But i'll try MPEG2-video then.

> > > What audio format does a normal HW DVD-player use?
> > 
> > AC3 is standard.  Most all seem to support MP2 audio as well.
> 
> MP2 is only supported for PAL DVD. For NTSC either AC3 or PCM is
> required. :( For this reason independent DVD producers who don't want
> to pay AC3 license fees feel compelled to use PCM which wastes a good
> 1/5 of the bitrate on audio.. :(
> 

MP2 isn't a problem, as i am using PAL then.

OK. So then:
-mpeg container format
-mpeg2video videocodec, options vqscale=2 and keyint=1
-mp2 sound
should work fine on all PAL DVD players, be future-proof, and editable
on some Linux video editor (any recomendations?). Ill try that tomorrow,
got a deadline for some work for friday...

Thank you,
Kyrre