Mencoder question.

gbrad · 02-17-2003, 06:01 PM

I've never used mencoder before, so I'm just a bit confused on how it works exactly. I have a file called "file.rm" --it's a RealMovie file-- and I want to convert it to MPEG4 with Audio. What command do I type? And what libraries/other software do I need to do this? And, as I know I'll be doing this soon, how would I convert I raw stream-dump from a DVD into MPEG4 as well? Thanks a lot for any help.

trickykid · 02-17-2003, 06:27 PM

From my understanding and reading the mencoder howto/man page, you can't ecode a real media file to mpeg. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though, but I've never seen it done or mentioned before.

gbrad · 02-17-2003, 07:03 PM

Okay, I was unaware of that. Does anyone know of a way to do this then?

MasterC · 02-17-2003, 07:13 PM

mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac copy <other options> media.avi -o output.mpg

According to this page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html

That's an example of encoding to mpg. Here's how I'd try it:
mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1100 -oac copy realvideo.rm -o mpegvideo.mpg

Don't know if it'd work though, but that's how I'd try to do it.

Cool

acid_kewpie · 02-18-2003, 05:50 AM

mpeg encoding is still beta and not useful as it doesn't encode audio to mp2 yet, so you won't actually get a REAL mpeg file. anything wrong with a nice modern avi?

gbrad · 02-18-2003, 07:45 AM

No, avi isn't bad. I just need it to play in quicktime. So as long as it would work in QTime. It's fine.