Xvid -> VCD - movie gets to big

[PTTP]

I have 2 versions of a movie here, one original and one german dubbed. I encoded the german version just fine on one XVCD using more or less the VCD PAL presets (Adjusted the bitrate to fit on 99m mode 1 CD). Then I tried the same with the original with the same settings. When trying to mux the files the app quits. Looking at the video and audio I see that the video is 863 MB big and the Audio about 150 MB. That's too big. The whole file was supposed to be just 870. And with the grman version movie it worked. I tried to mux them manually. It worked but the file is too big and the sound totally asynchronous (sp?). Can it be that I have to use the VCD NTSC setting? Or what else could be the problem?

[major]

To know if you need to use NTSC or PAL, look at the framerate of the source movie, and choose the same. Also, make sure you are using appropriate bitrate and profile settings.

[PTTP]

The source movie is 29.97 fps. So I tried to use the NTSC VCD setting.

But I get this error:

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Input stream with unknown frame-rate and no frame-rate specified with -a!

The video encoding doesn't happen and it starts the sound encoding.

Note that all I changed was from PAL VCD (which worked basically but produced a file too big and out of synch sound) to NTSC VCD. As for the bitrate settings: I use the bitrate calculator.

[major]

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Input stream with unknown frame-rate and no frame-rate specified with -a!

Are you using ffmpegX 0.0.7 or 0.0.7a?

[PTTP]

Grrr...

Now with 0.0.7a I get this:

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Encoding started on Mon Jun 9 14:32:58 CEST 2003
Input #0, avi, from '/Volumes/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4, 512x416, 29.97 fps, 800 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 112 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 352x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] pel_aspect_ratio must be between 1 and 14 (MPEG-1)
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Is there a 0.0.7b?

[major]

Can you upload me a small clip of your AVI on some webspace so as I can test and fix that.

[PTTP]

What program do I use to make a small clip from that kind of AVI? (See description in error meg. above)QuikTime won't handle it well...

[major]

Use the split button in ffmpegX (filters tab, define a split point in minec first).

[hamfisted]

I've also been getting the error

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] pel_aspect_ratio must be between 1 and 14 (MPEG-1)

when using the VCD (NTSC) preset to convert DIVX files...

Are the old 0.0.6 versions still available anywhere?

[aarle]

Interestingly I get the same error when trying to use the VCD (NTSC) preset to recode a MPG1 muxed video to VCD (yes it's already in VCD format, but I can't burn it to CD for some reason, probably because it was joined from 50 pieces).
Anyway, get the same error with 0.0.7a, but it works flawlessly with 0.0.6g (which luckily I kept when I upgraded yesterday):

Encoding started on Mon Jun 9 17:19:18 CEST 2003
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
Input #0, mpeg, from '/Volumes/data4/rips/NoOneToLove_2.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 320x240, 29.97 fps, 1500 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 44100 Hz, stereo, 192 kb/s
Output #0, yuv4mpegpipe, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 352x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] pel_aspect_ratio must be between 1 and 14 (MPEG-1)

[major]

**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] pel_aspect_ratio must be between 1 and 14 (MPEG-1)

I think I fixed it. Will be released in 0.0.7b.