Need help with avi to mpeg

[Andrewski22]

This is my situation....

I have a series of avi encoded with ac3 sound. I want to convert these avi to mpeg for use with toast to make vcds.

I soon realised that osx does not really support ac3 so i dumped the soundtrack with divx doctor and then converted it with mAC3dec into an aiff file. I then opened the movie in quicktime (pro) deleted the original soundtrack and repalced it with the aiff one. I then saved this as a stand alone movie.

At this point I had an avi movie with an aiff soundtrack. First of all I tried exporting this movie as a toast ready quicktime. After a long period of time I came back to my computer to find that quicktime had quit and had created a file. I opened the file and the first 2 minutes were fine but then the movie stopped despite appearing to have a runtime of the whole file.

This not working I decided to try ffmpegx. What follows is what happened in the terminal on various settings:

divx to mpeg 1

Last login: Wed Nov 13 09:46:24 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[Roisin-Murphys-Computer:~] roisinmu% pbpaste | sh
Input #0, mov, from '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test':
Stream #0.0: Video: DIV3, 640x368, -2.66 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 22050 Hz, stereo, 352 kb/s
Output #0, vcd, to '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video (hq), 352x240, 29.97 fps, q=2-13, 1137 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Unsupported codec for input stream #0.0
Encoding complete!

divx to mpeg vcd

Last login: Wed Nov 13 09:46:44 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[Roisin-Murphys-Computer:~] roisinmu% pbpaste | sh
Input #0, mov, from '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test':
Stream #0.0: Video: DIV3, 640x368, -2.66 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 22050 Hz, stereo, 352 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
Unsupported codec for input stream #0.0
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!
Input #0, mov, from '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test':
Stream #0.0: Video: DIV3, 640x368, -2.66 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 22050 Hz, stereo, 352 kb/s
Output #0, mp2, to '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester.mp2':
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
sh: line 1: 467 Bus error /Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test -y -vn -f mp2 -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -map 1.1:0.0 /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester.mp2
INFO: [mplex] mplex version 2.2.1 ($Date: 2002/04/20 19:08:30 $)
**ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester.m1v for reading.
rm: /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester.m2v: No such file or directory
Encoding complete!

divx to passthrough

Last login: Wed Nov 13 09:47:52 on ttyp1
pbpaste | sh
Welcome to Darwin!
[Roisin-Murphys-Computer:~] roisinmu% pbpaste | sh
Input #0, mov, from '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test':
Stream #0.0: Video: DIV3, 640x368, -2.66 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 22050 Hz, stereo, 352 kb/s
Output #0, avi, to '/Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester':
Stream #0.0: Video: DIV3, 640x368, -2.66 fps, q=0-0
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
sh: line 1: 476 Bus error /Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/test -y -f avi -vcodec copy -map 0.0:0.0 -b 1137.3615 -s 352x240 -r 29.97 -g 12 -me epzs -qmin 2 -qmax 13 -hq -acodec mp2 -ab 224 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -map 0.1:0.1 -benchmark /Users/roisinmu/Desktop/tester
Encoding complete!

What am I doing wrong? Is there something that I have not installed in the terminal? What reason could there be for quicktime quitting like it does? I really want to get these files off my hard disc onto vcds please help me. Any suggestions will be gratefully recieved.

[major]

Try to feed your file into Divx Doctor II to create a .mov container, make sure it plays in Quicktime player, and encode with ffmpegX the .mov file instead of the .avi.