[OT] - DVD Player
John Wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Sat Oct 22 21:57:56 UTC 2005
Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>I have a Phillips 642 ( US $65.00 ) that plays many but not all DIVX
>>files. If won't play Qpel encoded files (whatever that is). It also
>>won't play HDTV resolution encodes. I still like it a lot.
>>
>
>
> I have the exact same model, and it does play divx files made (probably)
> in windows, but doesn't play ANY of the files I made with
> mencoder/transcode. I tried various codecs, divx, xvid, divx5, etc. to no
> avail. I even called Philips, and they said if I thought there was
> something wrong with the player, take it to a certified repair shop, where
> I would have had to pay $100 only to have it looked at (it was ~$70 new).
> The tech said the files must be made with some (obviously non-linux)
> software I never heard of using some obscure option (something about home
> or home theater). It might just be that I'm missing some options in
> mencoder. Do you have any experience with this?
>
> Of course, it does play DVDs, even my transcode backups.
>
>
No Windows here, so I use mencoder on an FC3 box for video stuff. I use
a locally compiled version of mplayer/mencoder (whatever the latest
release is).
Here's a little 2 line script that I usually use with mencoder that
works for me.
mencoder $1.avi -sub $1.srt -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:keyint=100:vbitrate=1000:vb_strategy=1:vpass=1 -oac copy
mencoder $1.avi -sub $1.srt -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:keyint=100:vbitrate=1000:vb_strategy=1:vpass=2 -oac copy
I'm not too hot with the millions of mencoder options, but the last
video I made used the commands above to add hard subtitles to a video. I
also use this to lower the video bitrate (makes it smaller).
The resulting videos play fine on my Phillips.
You might take a look at http://videohelp.com. Lots of info (too much).
Sorry I can't be of more help.
John
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