[MEncoder-users] Dies on completion of 2nd pass, no output file

[David Ward]

Thanx for the heads up guys.

I am not sure where i got that command from now, but i put it in a menu 
driven shell script i wrote and ......


Anyway, I re-ripped the DVD with vobcopy and encoded again and all works.

There's another issue i have been havnig lately with certain audio 
streams speeding up the playback of the video.... but i will make 
another post on that topic.

Thanx again.





The Wanderer wrote:

> Rich Felker wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:55PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:
>
>
>>> In fact, I've done at least 400 encodings of various types of
>>> source material with -oac copy on the first pass and -oac mp3lame
>>> on the second.
>>
>>
>> You got lucky.
>>
>> If you want to avoid encoding audio twice, do three passed:
>>
>> 1: -lavcopts vpass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null dvd://1
>> 2: -lavcopts vpass=2 -oac copy -o foo.avi dvd://1
>> 3: -mc 0 -noskip -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -o bar.avi foo.avi
>>
>> This will also prevent the a/v desync bugs in mencoder's lame support
>> from messing up your movie.
>
>
> Is this in the docs? I don't remember seeing a recommendation to this
> effect get committed, and a quick glance at DOCS/HTML/en/menc* doesn't
> turn up any similar lines. If accurate, which wouldn't surprise me, I'd
> think that this would be a useful sort of recommendation to have around.
>