fastVCD problems

[B. Zerko]

I have tried to encode a .mov file using the ffmpeg codec. It finishes imeadiately with no file. The Progess info is as follows:

Encoding started on Thu Feb 12 07:14:43 PST 2004
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31 avdv
CODECID 0 31
header not found !!!

What does this mean, and how do I fix it? Any help is appreciated.

[major]

The codec is possibly not recognized. Try using mencoder engine instead.

Mencoder works. But, I was trying to improve the quality by using the ffmpeg. Any idea's why it doesn't work?

[B. Zerko]

Strange, I just tried mencoder again. (my early VCD's we of bad quality, as mentioned before) This time I recieved a failed error. The Following is my process information:

INFO: [yuvdenoise] ================================================== ======
Thu Feb 12 12:59:23 PST 2004
INFO: [yuvdenoise] Y4M2 Motion-Compensating-YCrCb-Denoiser
INFO: [yuvdenoise] ================================================== ======
INFO: [yuvdenoise] Version: MjpegTools 1.7.0
**ERROR: [yuvdenoise] Couldn't read YUV4MPEG header: bad header magic!
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!


Now I am more confused than ever.

[major]

Here you were using mpeg2enc, not mencoder.