mencoder: Converting divx to mpeg for VCD

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>]

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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:36:21AM +0530, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote:
> try mencoder .. it comes with mplayer

I was hoping for something a little less involved, since mencoder has
so many options you'd think there'd be a clicky frontend for it.  I'll
cope.

Anyrate, after reading the documentation and realising it's warning
about mp2 audio, I have to wonder how to force it to put the correct
audio layer in for a VCD.  The following is nearly the example it
gives, but this just copies audio.  I added -idx to make sure there's
a real index.

mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac copy -idx \
original.divx.avi -o converted.vcd.mpeg

Trying the following gave similar results, not sure what it did but it
didn't give me audio on the converted version, either.

mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac mp3lame -idx \
original.divx.avi -o converted.vcd.mpeg

I'm thinking I might need something like -lavcopts acodec=? but not
sure if such an option exists or what to put there.

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