Hello. I want to know what is the best way of converting a movie (in avi format) to SVCD when the aspect ratio of the movie differs from the intended SVCD aspect ratio (4:3). For instance, converting a movie with frame size 608x256 to SVCD with aspect ratio 4:3 NTSC.
Up to now I have been using ripmake and mencvcd. ripmake, uses transcode to resize the input and call the mpeg2enc export module. mencvcd calls mplayer, which, with the help of the expand filter, can expands (not scale) the movie resolution to a given value and place the unscaled original at given coordinates (default: center), while outputing a yuv4mpeg stream which is piped to yuvscaler. In the example above, the option "-vf expand=:456" to mencvcd brings the movie to the desired SVCD aspect ratio (608/456 = 4 /3). Is there any better solution to this? Maybe using some mjpeg tools. PS: I have noticed that ripmake (which is based on transcode) performs better than mencvcd. Would it be due to mencvcd runs more programs: mplayer -> yuvscaler -> mpeg2enc while ripmake is based on transcode: transcode [...] -y mpeg2enc [...] Any comments on that? Regards, Romildo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users