On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 23:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 15:33 -0400, sean darcy wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > Ah, the dreaded non montone timestamp. See > > https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue807 > > > > try: > > ffmpeg -i source.mkv -vcodec mpeg2video -acodec ac3 output.avi > > Trying that now ... it'll take a while. Well, it didn't work. One thing I notice is this (on running ffmpeg): Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1) -> 25.00 (25/1) I wonder if that could explain the synch problems. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines