mplayer video converting (-vo) help

[Firewing1]

Hello all,
I'm trying to make a video-convert like audio-convert.
I noticed there's a -vo option, like the -ao pcm:file=outfile I was wondering if anyone managed to get this to work. If I try
mplayer -vo x11:file=outfile mymovie.mpeg it says it doesn't know the file=outfile part.
Firewing1

[Firewing1]

Well, technically, the main goal for me is to convert the video to .mov .m4v (h-264), but i'm not sure if that's possible.
Firewing1

[qfx]

Yah, I got the iPod Video as well

What you need is ffmpeg, with a command something like this

ffmpeg -vcodec xvid -b 300 -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 96 -i input_file.avi -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 ipod_output.mp4


Which I shamelessly ripped off from this guy
http://atomized.org/


or try this
ffmpeg -i 'Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law - Identity Theft.mpg' -y -threads 2 -map 0.0:0.0 -f mp4 -vcodec xvid -aspect 4:3 -b 2500 -s 320x240 -r ntsc -g 24 -me epzs -qmin 2 -qmax 9 -acodec aac -ab 128 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -map 0.1:0.1 -benchmark 'Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law - Identity Theft.mpg.mp4'

from these guys
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/grou...r/581004816731


Basically, just check out ffmpeg. It should already be on your machine. The issues you might run into include audio/video losing sync.

Let me know if it works for you. I have just gotten my 5G ipod and I've loaded some things, but some other vids aren't converting very well for me. Mainly due to differences in frames per second.

Also, if you DO have windows installed <shocked!> then you might want to check out videora.

Let me know how it works out for you.



p.s. I'm also in Canada (Burnaby)

[imdeemvp]

I dont know if the issue is related but I posted a fix in my mplayer how-to: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53335 see if the works or if related.

[Firewing1]

@qfx, thanks it worked! (the second method)
Firewing1

[Firewing1]

Final EDIT: OK,found it works on only some wmv files??? Some wmv files, after using mcoder to convert them to .avi files, will NOT convert with ffmpeg. Any reasong why? I get the same error about mapping in my quote.

Edit... ok this is wierd. It used to work, I guess I upgraded it to ATRPMS's version or something ,but now it won't work. It says
"unknown codec aac"
(it being ffmpeg)
EDIT of the edit:
I re-installed the one from livna. Now, I get this instead:
Input #0, avi, from 'test.avi':
Duration: 00:01:50.2, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 10314 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: RGB, 220x176, 15.00 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 32000 Hz, stereo, 1024 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to 'ipod_output.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: xvid, 320x240, 15.00 fps, q=3-5, 300 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 32000 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
and the output is a 0 byte mp4 file.

Firewing1

[Firewing1]

Sorry for all the trouble, got it working. It only handles .mpg files it seems, not .avi??
Firewing1

[imdeemvp]

Originally Posted by Firewing1

Sorry for all the trouble, got it working. It only handles .mpg files it seems, not .avi??
Firewing1

Try realplayer for avi files....I dont mess with them a lot or I rarely use them but realplayer may do the trick. At one point I thought xmms had a plugin for avi files but dont recall.