[MPlayer-users] Having trouble producing mpeg from mov

[Norman Ramsey]

 > > The failures were basically faulty playing of the video. For example 
 > > quicktime would play for a second or so and then freeze on a frame for 
 > > the duration of the movie... 
 >
 > There is one more thing, with:
 > 
 > mencoder -noskip -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
 > vcodec=mpeg1video -o PC290052.mpg PC290052.MOV
 > 
 > I get many errors:
 > 
 > ERROR! unknown fps code: 0INITIAL DELAY of 0 framesmb  A-V:0.000 
 > [867:0]]   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
 > ERROR: SCR: 1.702, VPTS: 0.867, DELTA=-0.836 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 1.796, VPTS: 0.933, DELTA=-0.862 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 1.871, VPTS: 1.000, DELTA=-0.871 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 1.945, VPTS: 1.067, DELTA=-0.879 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 2.020, VPTS: 1.133, DELTA=-0.887 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 2.095, VPTS: 1.200, DELTA=-0.895 secs
 > ERROR: SCR: 2.170, VPTS: 1.267, DELTA=-0.903 secs
 > 
 > Perhaps these problems are why the other players are having problems.

I have had bucketloads of similar problems in trying to transcode HDTV
for archiving onto DVD.  I've given up on mplayer/mencoder's mpeg
muxer and am instead extracting audio and video using mencoder, then
muxing together using 'mplex'.  You might want to try the same.


Norman