MEncoder: Whats wrong with this command?
 

which returns this:

Quote:

MEncoder 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 2400 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory Option oac: Unknown suboption output.mpg Exiting... (error parsing cmdline)

Any ideas?

:confused:

Ok, I figured it out (see below, fellow newbies), but have a few more questions:

1) It looks like I've lost some information in the resultant 'mpg'. Is there any way to retain all or most of it?
2) Will my DVD player accept any other codecs other than mpeg1? For example, could I use DivX5 or something else (anything that could make higher quality video?)

Solution:
-thanks