Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/29/2011 04:21 PM, François TOURDE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a problem trying to convert a mkv video into a DVD suitable for a
> home DVD player:
>
> I use stable/testing, with debian-multimedia repositories for mplayer
> and mencoder, and when I try to encode the mkv, I've a scratchy sound,
> and only the firsts minuts of the video encoded.
>
> Using mplayer to read the mkv works like a charm, but mencoder say after
> a few seconds:
[snip]
> My encoding options are:
>
> mencoder -really-quiet -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 -o<fileOut.mpg>  <fileIn.mkv>
>
> I've looked at the net (not enough?), but nothing really revelant.
>
> mencoder:  3:1.0~rc4+svn20110505-0.0
> mplayer:   3:1.0~rc4+svn20110505-0.0
>
> Any help appreciated.

Not help making *mencoder* work, but I have great success using 
HandBrakeCLI (package handbrake-cli) to convert DVDs to mkv and m4v.

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