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 Have you updated ffmpeg? Let the ffmpeg user group be your friend. sean -- 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
