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On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 12:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 12:31 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 10:00 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> [...]>
> >>> <rant>
> >>> Part of the problem is that all the above tools are clearly aimed at
> >>> people who know what they're doing. Those of us uninterested in a career
> >>> in multimedia technology are liable to be completely lost when
> >>> struggling with any of the (incomplete and ambiguous) manuals, not to
> >>> mention the baroque syntax of the command-line options. Why are there no
> >>> "multimedia conversion for dummies" tools in Linux as there are in
> >>> Windoze?
> >>> </rant>
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, my question is this: does anyone have a useful recipe for this
> >>> kind of thing?
> >>>
> >>> And for extra credit: how about converting FLV (Flash video)?
> >>>
> >>> poc
> >>>
> >> First, I agree with your rant. What the world needs is a media recipe wiki.
> >>
> >> But I'd try again with ffmpeg. It has the most active development and
> >> user group. The helpful users make up for the lousy docs.
> >
> > Good to know :-)
> >
> >> 1. Do you have a very recent version of ffmpeg? I'd urge you to use svn,
> >> but at least 0.5.1.
> >
> > It's the standard Fedora repo version:
> > ffmpeg-0.5-5.20091026svn.fc12.x86_64 so possibly not.
> >
>
> rpmfusion has ffmpeg-0.6-0.3.20100429svn
>
>
> >> 2. ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi , should
> >> work if source mkv is in mpeg-4 and mp3.
> >
> > It's H.264 and AC-3:
> >
> > Duration: 01:32:04.57, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
> > Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
> > Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16
> >
>
> Well AC-3 should work in your dvd, so try:
>
> ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec copy output.avi
As soon as it starts I get:
[...]
[NULL @ 0x1570030]error, non monotone timestamps 12288 >= 12288
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file
poc
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I remember I converted once a flv to avi, using mencoder, with the following command:<BR>
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mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o Output.avi Input.flv<BR>
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and it worked.<BR>
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