AVI 2 DVD with mencoder

[nidoranz]

I've been trying to create DVD content with mencoder. However, i keep failing. I get Segmentation faults or the message 'frameno.avi' doesnt exist. Can somebody give me the command they send to mencoder to do this, or do you know a good gui for this stuff. DVD authoring will come later. I don't suspect much problems there

[ak]

If mencoder segfaults, it's probably lavc not being happy with input dimensions and/or fps.

Then again, I think ffmpeg is more suited for that. You could try using built-in 'target' presets, e.g -t dvd.

[nexx]

could you please post the commands you are using?

[ak]

Actually, I don't do that myself, but I think very basic setup would be:
> mencoder in.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=...:other_video_opts:acodec=ac3:abitrate=...

You should probably calculate target bitrate and use 2 pass, and man suggests using vrc_buf_size=1835 for dvd target.

Reading docs and googling around should give more hints.

Hth