On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:31:17AM +0200, Jukka Tastula wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:19, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > analysing the file with '-i' shows that it has an ac3 stream, mp2 > > stream, and a video stream. > > That's probably it then. You should try the latest snapshot (050322); the > bugs page claims there's a fix for a problem with AC3 and vdr >1.3.19 (and > 1.3.23). thanks. that does the trick. if anyone else is interested, my converter script now looks like this: ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # vdr2dix.sh [dir] # # e.g. vdr2divx.sh /video/FooBar/2005-03-22.23.59.99.99.rec # will convert to divx & save as /video/DIVX/FooBar.2005.03.22.avi # user-tweakable constants OUTDIR='/video/DIVX' TMPDIR='/video/tmp' ARGS='-oac mp3lame -ovc lavc' # arg processing IN="$1" show=$(echo "$IN" | sed -e 's=/video/==' -e 's=/.*==') date=$(echo "$IN" | sed -e 's=.*\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\).*=\1=') OUT="$OUTDIR/$show.$date.avi" #echo $IN "===>" $OUT [ -e $TMPDIR/vdrsync1.mpg ] && rm -f $TMPDIR/vdrsync1.mpg #echo vdrsync.pl $IN -mpeg2 -o $TMPDIR/ #echo mencoder $ARGS -o $OUT $TMPDIR/vdrsync1.mpg vdrsync.pl $IN -mpeg2 -o $TMPDIR/ mencoder $ARGS -o $OUT $TMPDIR/vdrsync1.mpg rm -f $TMPDIR/vdrsync1.mpg ---cut here--- it probably needs some tweaking of the mencoder arguments for optimum quality/size, but it works as is. craig -- craig sanders <cas@xxxxxxxxxx> (part time cyborg)
