If you're transcoding, you should be using something suited for that purpose, like ffmpeg. Enclosed is a shell script that I use for transcoding arbitrary videos to DVD format. Feel free to change the framerate, frame size, and aspect ratio to any legal values.
I use mpeg2enc only for creating MPEG2 video out of analog streams. ffmpeg can do that too, but mpeg2enc is MUCH better at it. Steven Boswell ________________________________ From: JD <jd1...@gmail.com> To: mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:47 PM Subject: [Mjpeg-users] encoding mp4 to mpeg2 DVD format mjpegtools-2.0.0-1.fc16.i686 My question is if mpeg2enc is able to convert mp4 videos to mpeg2 dvd format. This is how I am invoking it: $ mpeg2enc --no-constraints -o video_12.dvd < $PWD/Video_12.mp4 INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION! **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: bad header magic! $ file Video_12.mp4 Video_12.mp4: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2 The mp4 video plays just fine using ffplay, mplayer, vlc, ...etc on Linux. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
convert.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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