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
I remember I converted once a flv to avi, using mencoder, with the following command:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o Output.avi Input.flv
and it worked.
HTH
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