Error when converting to avi

[Fashionita]

I am trying to convert .asf video from Panasonic DVD recorder to Mac OSX compatible .avi format. When I try to convert, I get the following message in the progress info box:

Encoding started on Wed Nov 19 16:09:48 CST 2008
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
AltiVec found
Error: option 'oac' has no suboption 'lavc'
Using built-in default codecs.conf
Reading config file /Users/anitaber/.mplayer/mencoderExiting... (error parsing cmdline)


FYI, I am able to convert to .mov format.

Thanks

[Case]

MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

Mine says:
MEncoder dev-CVS-051126-18:35-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Apparently you are using a much older and/or custom version of mencoder, which may not be 100% compatible with the ffmpegX 0.0.9. Any special reason why you're not updated?

[Fashionita]

Thanks for your help. No particular reason except that I had not actually used ffmpegx since, I think, 2004 but had probably installed an update to it but not updated binaries at some time. I had the x version installed and was having the same problem, so I installed the y version which said that I didn't need to reinstall the binaries. Clear as mud?

Anyway, I reinstalled the binaries and now it works except I get no sound. I did notice that the binary mpeg2enc.intel is shown as a document whereas the old mpeg2enc was a text document if that matters. The process information file says that it doesn't find audio stream:

Encoding started on Thu Nov 20 10:46:36 CST 2008
MEncoder dev-CVS-051126-18:35-3.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x1055858
ASF file format detected.
Too many video packets in the buffer: (1340 in 8390837 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
ASF: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: [MP4S] 320x240 24bpp 1000.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:6 fourcc:0x5334504D size:320x240 fps:1000.00 ftime:=0.0010
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=320 h=240]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
================================================== ========================
Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [XVID]
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
videocodec: libavcodec (320x240 fourcc=58564944 [XVID])
Writing AVI header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Flushing video frames
Writing AVI index...
Fixing AVI header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Video stream: 912.960 kbit/s (114119 B/s) size: 19582982 bytes 171.600 secs 2566 frames
Encoding completed on Thu Nov 20 10:48:21 CST 2008

Thanks,
Anita

[Case]

If mencoder can't find an audio stream, then these ASF files should be converted with presets that do not use mencoder.
To convert to AVI, you could try the DivX ffmpeg and XviD ffmpeg presets.

[Fashionita]

Both of those presets worked. Thanks for helping a newby boobie. Now, my new MacBook Pro just arrived and I'm hoping everything works when I make the big transfer.

Anita