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



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 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.

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