[MPlayer-users] How to create MPEG-2 stream understandable for mplex?

[n0dalus]

On 1/20/06, Welko Hristov <welko at web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I followed the procedure listed at
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html and created
> MPEG-2 stream which can be passed to dvdauthor for creating a DVD. I
> tested it and it works just fine. What I fail to achieve is to multiplex
> additional AC3 audio streams because mplex complains that it does not
> understand the format of the video stream:
>
> $ mplex -f 8 -o output.mpeg video.mpeg audio1.ac3 audio2.ac3
> INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
> **ERROR: [mplex] File video.mpeg unrecogniseable!
> INFO: [mplex] File audio1.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
> INFO: [mplex] File audio2.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
> **ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.
>
> Could somebody help me with this issue please?
>

What was the command you used to make video.mpeg?

It's very possible that you accidentaly outputed to an AVI container
instead of using -of mpeg.

n0dalus.