creating huge files when using mpeg2enc

[trevytrev]

i've been trying to encode a 700mb avi file to dvd. if i use ffpeg, there's no sound so i tried mpeg2enc.
every time I try to encode it, it eats up all the available space on my startup drive by creating these files Volumes>drivename>stream.yuv and audio dump.wav in the base system package.

both the source file and destination are on an external drive.

Does anyone know how to avoid this?

Also, is there a guide that tells which kind of files you should use ffpeg and which you should use mpeg2enc?

[major]

Normally stream.yuv should be seen as a 0 bytes file (as it is not a file but an Unix pipe). If it is not 0 bytes, then there may be some permission problem and you may want to avoid using mpeg2enc. ffmpeg should be used unless your player does not like the streams it creates (VBR while mpeg2enc is quite CBR).

[trevytrev]

yeah, the stream.yuv just eats up whatever I have avail. like 20GB
If i use ffmpeg, and play the video ts folder with dvd player, there's no sound.

any suggestions?

[major]

Open the VIDEO_TS in ffmpegX and click the PLAY button, there is sound?

[trevytrev]

it won't play continuously in vlc everytime i click "play" it pauses but it doesn't seem like there's sound and the muxed mpg file doesn't have sound.

in the past when sound wouldn't output using ffmpeg, i used mpeg2enc and it worked but now there's this problem with the stream eating up all my disk space so it fails. is there a way to repair the permissions?

[major]

Try using Disk Utility.