[mythtv-users] How to locate the correct audio trackwhentranscoding?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 22:57:24 UTC 2006


On 11/12/06, David Fishburn <fishburn at ianywhere.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Watkins
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:30 AM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to locate the correct audio
> > trackwhentranscoding?
> >
> > On 11/12/06, David Fishburn <fishburn at ianywhere.com> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > My problem is, when transcoding recordings to MP4, to
> > watch them on
> > > > my PSP, I often end up with one of these additional
> > tracks instead
> > > > of the main programme audio.
> > >
> > > I just received my PSP and I am trying to figure out how to
> > get videos
> > > on this device.
> > >
> > > Could you provide some additional information:
> > > 1.  Can you show me the mencoder command line you are using.
> >
> > This is what I used.  It produced a very nice video on the
> > PSP (approx 150MByte for 25 minutes)
> >
> > mencoder -delay 0.3 -aid 0 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of lavf
> > -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=aac -af
> > lavcresample=24000 -vf harddup -lavfopts
> > format=psp:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frame
> > s -vf scale=320:240  -o Rock+300.mp4
> > /video/store/1008_20051102185900_20051102193000.nuv
> >
> > ( and according to the source I used substitute scale=368:206
> > for 16:9)
>
> Thanks, this worked for me, but the title of the show is garbage.
> I see ffmeg has a -title switch, but mencoder does not.
> Did you create a THM with it which holds a jpg image of the show?
> http://www.artfahrt.com/psp.html

No I hadn't thought of making a thumbnail.  I guess that will be the
icing on the cake one I get the whole thing automated.

>
> I tried using ffmpeg that comes with Ubuntu 6.10 but it says -singlejpeg is
> not supported.
>
>
> > > 2.  The location on the memory stick where you copy the files.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that it was  /VIDEO.  The directory didn't
> > exist initially.  I downloaded a sample video from the
> > example RSS feed, which created it.  I can look tonight to confirm.
>
>
> I am using firmware 2.50.
> I found a few documents indicating I have to follow this naming convention:
> M4V00000.mp4
>
> Once I did that (replace the zeros with numbers) the video shows up and
> plays.
> But I had to put this in:
> /MP_ROOT/100MNV01
>

I'm using firmware version 3.02 (I guess it's become a bit more
friendly since 2.5).


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