rmvb -> avi again :evil:

[leovst]

OK, I searched through the forum but didn't find the solution,
I installed everything like, I think, it is supposed to be,
the plugins, reallib, I have no spaces in the path, the file plays in realplayer,...

And I can't seem to encode a rmvb file to avi, it just as all the other posts, says finnished after a sec,
but it doesn't even give a file as a result,
I also tried to encode it to mpeg2 with mpeg2enc and I think that works(I stopped it before it could finnish, it took to long), but I need an avi movie so that doesn't mather.

This is the processlog:

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `printf "Encoding started on " && date && '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' /heroes.205.hdtv-lol.rm -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=128 -srate 48000 -ovc lavc -sws 0 -lavcopts  threads=2:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=940:keyint=240:vqmin=2:vqmax=15 -ofps NTSC FILM (29.97) -vop scale=624:352 -noodml -ffourcc DIVX  -o /heroes.205.hdtv-lol.rm.ff.avi && printf "Encoding completed on " && date && printf "\a"'

And my computer is a G5 with Leopard installed.

Is there a solution

[Case]

Your file was originally an XviD AVI scene release. So why would you get a converted .rm file and convert that back to AVI? I would think a second generation file is better than a fourth generation copy.

the file plays in realplayer

Does it play using ffmpegX's [Play] button?

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Syntax errors should be avoided by using the GUI, so that's weird, right from the start.

/bin/sh: ... NTSC FILM (29.97) ...

NTSC FILM is 23.976 fps, NTSC is 29.97 fps. Also this is the only '(' in the syntax. Good chance this is where and why it errors. The mencoder syntax should have the framerate as a number only, like:
-ofps 23.976

[leovst]

I got this rmvb file from a friend, and he only had that file.

And it now it is working, I hope,
it was that Framerate-setting which was wrong, with NTSC FILM (23.976) it works.

Thank you very much.