Black image and a tiny avi

[LeGone]

Hi !

I am trying to encode an avi movie using ffmpegX 0.0.7 (c or d) and I keep getting a small movie (35 Mb) whatever setting I try; I am trying to use mencoder codec (avi or xvid). The image is definitely black.
Here is the log :

Encoding started on Mon Aug 4 22:19:41 CEST 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
Reading /Users/legone/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/Users/legone/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 55 audio & 141 video codecs
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Reading config file /Users/legone/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xDC0AF800
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.00 fps 9375.0 kbps (1171.9 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using AltiVec optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 384.0 kbit/s
No accelerated resampler found
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 48000->192000 (384.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
Opening video filter: [scale=720:396]
Opening video filter: [crop=12:12:8:8]
Crop: 12 x 12, 8 ; 8
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
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 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 3 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 3 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 3 -> 2
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 3 -> 2

SwScaler: BILINEAR scaler, from Planar YV12 to Planar YV12 using C
videocodec: libavcodec (720x396 fourcc=58564944 [XVID])
High quality encoding selected (non real time)!
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
MP3 audio selected
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Writing AVI header...
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. 0mb A-V:0.000 [0:0]
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.


The encoding finishes and announces a 67 kb/s bitrate even if I chose 1314 in th GUI...
Does anyone have an idea?

[LeGone]

If that can help somewhat, I can add that I can still encode some other DVD. I noticed that the DVD I cannot encode (I tried to rip it using Osex and YadeX) only have a VIDEO_TS folder and no AUDIO_TS folder. The DVD I managed to encode have both...

Does that help?

[major]

In desperate cases, get your source as a .m2v file with 0SEx, mux it with the audio and encode the resulting file.

[LeGone]

I think I have already tried this solution. Anyway, I will test this again.
But do you mean I should put the m2v video file in the input file field (top of the window), encode with my settings the video, encode the audio separately and then finally mux it?

[major]

No, mux it with the audio first and then encode the resulting .mpg