Video conversion problem -mpeg2, mpeg1, etc.
My wife wants to play some videos on a projector while she does a talk. Inevitably there will only be Windows machines available to do this (or possibly her laptop which, unlike everything else, is also Windows). She has chosen the files she'd like to run, they're all MPEG2. It turns out that Linux is actually better at doing this than Windows but this doesn't help the current issue. I want to concatenate five or six MPEG videos and play them, by default on Windows this means they have to be MPEG1. I'm trying to convert them using ffmpeg but at present I'm failing miserably. Can anyone tell me, in simple terms, how I can convert some MPEG2 files to MPEG1? I'm currently trying:- ffmpeg -i 'Head In The Clouds.mpg' -target vcd -y /home/chris/tmp/maxine/hitc.mpg but this produces a zero length output file, do I need something more to get it to work? -- Chris Green
Hi, 2009/11/15 Chris G <cl@isbd.net>:
I want to concatenate five or six MPEG videos and play them, by default on Windows this means they have to be MPEG1. I'm trying to convert them using ffmpeg but at present I'm failing miserably.
Can you not slap VLC or mplayer on a pen drive and use that? Or liveCD a linux distro and play that way? Bring your wife's laptop and use that with VLC/Mplayer?
I'm currently trying:-
ffmpeg -i 'Head In The Clouds.mpg' -target vcd -y /home/chris/tmp/maxine/hitc.mpg
but this produces a zero length output file, do I need something more to get it to work?
Do you have better luck with mencoder? What about 'transcode'? Srdjan
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:11:11PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
2009/11/15 Chris G <cl@isbd.net>:
I want to concatenate five or six MPEG videos and play them, by default on Windows this means they have to be MPEG1. I'm trying to convert them using ffmpeg but at present I'm failing miserably.
Can you not slap VLC or mplayer on a pen drive and use that?
Yes, now I know what programs to try I can! :-) VLC seems to do what I want, thank you! -- Chris Green
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:06:27 +0000 Chris G <cl@isbd.net> allegedly wrote:
Can anyone tell me, in simple terms, how I can convert some MPEG2 files to MPEG1?
I'm currently trying:-
ffmpeg -i 'Head In The Clouds.mpg' -target vcd -y /home/chris/tmp/maxine/hitc.mpg
but this produces a zero length output file, do I need something more to get it to work?
Try "ffmpeg -i infile -vcodec msmpeg4 -acodec mp3 outfile.avi" if the mp3 audio codec gives problems, try faac. (and I recommend you get hold of a copy of winff - a pretty good gui front end to ffmpeg) Mick (Srdjan - transcode is /WAY/ too slow, and mencoder has more options than most hedgehogs have fleas. I use it a lot, but I understand less than 10% of it. Make that 5%....) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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