[MPlayer-users] Mpeg-2, mencoder, mplex and tcmplex

[John Brown]

Olivier Rolland wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create DVD-compliant with mencoder. Everything is
> explained in the documentation and it works quite well. However, I
> want to create a DVD with multiple audio and subtitle streams. Easy, I
> said to myself. Let's encode the video and the audio streams
> separately and merge them with mplex or tcmplex. I then took the
> command line from the documentation and stripped off everything
> related to audio and run it:
>
> $ mencoder -nosound of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -vf
> scale=720:576,harddup -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:vstrict=0:aspect=16/9
> -ofps 25 -o movie.mpg movie.avi
>
> Just to be sure, I ran dvdauthor on movie.mpg and the result played
> just fine with mplayer:
>
> $ dvdauthor -o movie -x movie.xml
> $ mplayer -dvd-device movie dvd://1
>
> I then extracted the video stream from movie.mpg and tried to mplex
> the newly created file but it just failed:
>
> $ mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile video.m2v movie.mpg
> $ mplex -f 8 -o movie-mplex.mpg video.m2v
> INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
> **ERROR: [mplex] File video.m2v unrecogniseable!
> **ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.
>
> I then tried to tcmplex the same file, just in case, but it just failed too:
>
> $ tcmplex-panteltje -m d -o movie-tcmplex.mpg -i video.m2v
> tcmplex-panteltje-0.4.7 (c) 2001 Thomas Ostreich and Jan Panteltje
> INFO: using reference profile (DVD)
> INFO: profile type is (PAL)
> ERROR: File video.m2v is not a 11172-2 or 13818-2 Video stream.
>
> I guess the file produced by mplayer are not absolutely compliant to
> the MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818-2) standard. How can I fix this ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Olivier


Well, if you demux with mpgtx instead of mplayer -dumpvideo, it will work.

I don't know why it is not working now, but it used to work. After I
generated my DVD-compliant MPEG with mencoder, I would 
mplayer -dumpvideo/-dumpaudio and then mplex the results. This was not
really necessary; I only did it to avoid the countless warnings in dvdauthor.

However, one day I became aware of tsaf, and I noticed that dvdauthor did
not complaint about files produced with tsaf, so I stopped doing it long ago.
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