VIDEO_TS to Divx Problems

[crapple33]

I'm trying to encode a VIDEO_TS folder to Divx for quite a while, and though I followed the guide exactly, word for word, it's still not working. When I hit the encode button, the progress thing comes up, but after less than a second, it says it's done, which is obviously impossible. It does create a .avi file, but it's only 4kb large, and for sure not the real movie. I'm running os 10.2.8 on a 1 ghz new iMac. Anyone else been having this problem?

[major]

Check if you installed correctly. Post the process output (blue "i" icon on the Progress window).

[crapple33]

OK, tried it again this time, only I used a single VOB file instead of the entire VIDEO_TS folder, and I also encoded using MPEG4 [.AVI] (ffmpeg) instead of MPEG4 [.AVI] (mencoder). So one of these things doesn't work, and I'm inclined to think that encoding an entire VIDEO_TS folder is the problem, because I think I tried to encode the whole folder with a whole bunch of different encoder engines, and none of them worked. Do you know if encoding the VIDEO_TS folder is really possible? I mean, you do have a guide for it on the site, but then again I just can't get it to work.

[mitsakos]

I am having the same problem.

In most DVDs it works. But there is a new breed (maybe) of DVDs that are of an unknown format for "ffmpeg" or "mencoder".

when using ffmpeg i get this log:

Encoding started on Fri Nov 7 05:13:13 EET 2003
/Users/mitsakos/Desktop/ServingSara/VIDEO_TS: Unknown format


when using mencoder I get this log:

Encoding started on Fri Nov 7 05:11:42 EET 2003
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
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 9 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x32800
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.00 fps 10000.0 kbps (1250.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
Opening video filter: [scale=608:256]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: No accelerated IDCT transform found
libmpeg2: No accelerated motion compensation found
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 2 -> 2
SwScaler: FAST_BILINEAR scaler, from Planar YV12 to Planar YV12 using C
videocodec: XViD (608x256 fourcc=44495658 [DIVX])
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
Writing AVI header...
Writing AVI index...
Fixing AVI header...
Video stream: nan kbit/s (-2147483648 bps) size: 0 bytes 0.000 secs 1 frames
Encoding completed on Fri Nov 7 05:11:43 EET 2003

[major]

Do you know if encoding the VIDEO_TS folder is really possible?

Yes, it is possible, but only when using the following codecs:

- mpeg-2 with "decode with mplayer" enabled
- mencoder mpeg-4
- xvid

If it doesn't work try the following:

- check if you installed everything correctly
- check if it works with a different VIDEO_TS
- check the terminal output
- send me the above to major4@mac.com