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MPEG player crashed everything
LambdaCalculus:
On my end, I usually use VLC, having rewrote the script available from the Mpegplayer wiki page for Linux. One plus is that it's easy to feed files to VLC this way, but one huge minus is that VLC mucks up on any file that wasn't an MPEG to begin with; I've sent AVIs, DivX-encoded AVIs, QuickTime movies, and even a couple of XviD videos, only to end up with just one huge audio track and absolutely no video.
If ffmpeg works as well as everyone says it does, then so be it! I'll take the plunge and give it a shot.
cpchan:
--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on July 12, 2007, 11:26:54 PM ---On my end, I usually use VLC, having rewrote the script available from the Mpegplayer wiki page for Linux.
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I personally use mencoder.
--- Quote ---If ffmpeg works as well as everyone says it does, then so be it! I'll take the plunge and give it a shot.
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It shouldn't really matter whether you use mencoder, VLC or ffmpeg. Since they all use avcodec and avformat from ffmpeg (now maintain on the mplayer servers). FWIW, here is my batch transcoding script using mencoder. Put it on the wiki page if you want.
Charles
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Llorean:
Well I've found that VLC and... umm, one other program I tried though I can't remember if it was mencoder or not, don't handle framerate well. Specifically, there are several fractions used by different codecs to represent 29.97, and with VLC especially, if your input video isn't the 29.97 it's expecting, your output MPEG-2 will have audio but no video. Using the ffmpeg binary, it will handle this situation properly (in my experience).
This if course isn't a problem if you manually set a framerate, but if you don't on the assumption that the video is already a good framerate you end up with unusable files in many cases, where ffmpeg seems to pick the nearest good framerate (for me at least).
So it may not be so much the encoder itself as both the decoder and what parameters are internally given to the encoder.
cpchan:
--- Quote from: Llorean on July 13, 2007, 12:09:48 AM ---Well I've found that VLC and... umm, one other program I tried though I can't remember if it was mencoder or not, don't handle framerate well.
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Don't know about VLC since I don't use it. However, I frequently encode videos with non-standard Framerate with mencoder with no problems. YMMV though since my mplayer/mencoder is compiled from SVN every couple of days.
--- Quote ---So it may not be so much the encoder itself as both the decoder and what parameters are internally given to the encoder.
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True.
As a side note, can I ask for Wiki editing permission here or should I go on IRC? I am not a big IRC user.
Charles
GodEater:
IRC is the easiest and quickest way to get it - although if you don't mind posting your wiki name here I'll be happy to set it up for you.
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