[MPlayer-users] mencoder not doing the business

[Nico Sabbi]

Stuart Halliday wrote:
> I'm using :
> MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0)
> CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> 
> on a Windows XP sp2 PC in the UK and having a little trouble with converting 
> some uncompressed video to MPEG2 format for putting on a DVD.
> 
> The videos are
> 308x542 and 352x576 both around 35-45GB.
> and I tried the following to convert them to 720x576 mpeg2
> 
> mencoder "r:\raw\video1.avi" -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts 
> format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 
> -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=4/3:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 
> -ofps 25 -o video.mpg
> 
> 
> I got a error about the -vf scale option and it suggests using a different 
> scale option.
> The output video is only about the first 5 minutes before it stops.
> 
> I tried using -vf scale:pal but that seems not to work.
> 
> Any advise for a first time user?
> 
> It's probably my fault.... :-)
> 
> 

of course it's your fault: you are the actor.
In order to understand what's wrong we need either a more detailed log 
or a working crystal ball