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. > Have you updated ffmpeg? Not yet. My impression was that the .51 release was mostly about licensing changes. I prefer to stick with the repos wherever possible. > Let the ffmpeg user group be your friend. It's on my list if all else fails. Thanks for your suggestions. 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
