.avi to mpeg 2 fails every time.....

[phillyman]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use one of my Philips TVs usb port to watch a movie and need it to be in mpeg2 format. Through trial and error I figured out that mpeg2 (SVCD ffmpeg preset) is usually recognized on my TV. When I try to convert the .avi to mpeg2 on my latest batch of files it immediately says finished and doesn't convert.

Here the info output.... Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Phillyman


BTW: It has worked in the past with other files but I played with the settings so it was just plain dumb luck....

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `printf "Encoding started on " && date && /Applications/Converters/ffmpegX_0.0.9y/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/movtoy4m -w 720 -h 576 -F 25:1 -a 4:3 /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi | /Applications/Converters/ffmpegX_0.0.9y/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg2 -f yuv4mpegpipe -i - -y -threads 2 -aspect 4:3 -f rawvideo -vcodec mpeg2video -b 3746 -s 720x576 -r pal -g 12 -me epzs -qmin 2 -qmax 20 -scan_offset -minrate 3746 -maxrate 3746 -bufsize 224 -an -benchmark /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mpv && /Applications/Converters/ffmpegX_0.0.9y/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -map 0.1:0.0 /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mp2 && /Applications/Converters/ffmpegX_0.0.9y/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/mplex -V -S 780 -f 5 -O 0 -b 230 -r 7716 -v 0 -o /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff-%d.mpg /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mpv /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mp2 && rm /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mpv && rm /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel\ \&\ Hardy\ -\ Another\ Fine\ Mess\(Colour\).avi.ff.mp2 && /Applications/Converters/ffmpegX_0.0.9y/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/au.sh /Users/xxx/Desktop/Laurel & Hardy - Another Fine Mess(Colour).avi.ff && printf "Encoding completed on " && date && printf "\a"

[freebird73717]

Try removing the parentheses from your filename.

[jman98]

There are other ways to encode. You don't have to use ffmpeg. Of course if you are running this on a non-Windows machine you really needed to have mentioned that. Another possibility for Windows is to use HCenc. It looks like you're probably running on Linux and I don't really keep up with encoding options for Linux because there aren't many. Looks like your final (Colour) isn't escaped with \ like the earlier ones are.

Good Lord man, with all that code you had to use to get ffmpeg to work, I could have gotten your file started encoding with a 1 line AviSynth script fed into HCenc and then adjusted the bit rate using HCenc GUI. That's a lot easier than having to input that monstrous script above. The reality is that no video or audio work is ever easy in non-Windows environments. I hate Windows, but it's where the tools are.

[freebird73717]

hcenc and avisynth work fine in linux if you are willing to install wine.

[phillyman]

Mea culpa... Sorry I'm used to posting at mac forums that I forgot to mention the operating system... I removed the "special" characters and all seems well at the moment...

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,
Philly

[freebird73717]

Glad to help.