[MEncoder-users] Creating Youtube-compliant H.264 content

[Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Grozdan,

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:30:15PM +0200, Grozdan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying to capture some old VHS videos with a bt8x8-based
> > analog capture card which worked nicely so far. However, when I tried
> > to upload the video, Youtube's upload script complaint that the video
> > I have uploaded could not be converted. I used the following command
> > line to capture and encode with libx264 (the video has no sound, thats
> > why I disabled it):
> >
> > mencoder -v -tv \
> > driver=v4l2:input=2:norm=PAL:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:immediatemode=0 tv:// \
> > -ovc x264 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -o output.mp4 -nosound
> 
> Stop using broken lavf muxer with mencoder. Output to avi, then use mp4box

Thanks a lot for your quick reply, I will give it a try! Is lavf known
to be broken and going to be removed soon?

Adrian