[MPlayer-users] is this an acceptable forum for asking about SVCD creation using mencoder?

[Grigori Goronzy]

David Nedved wrote:
>Hi All,
> 
> New to this forum, and don't want to get anyone's feathers ruffled,
> but trying to find a forum where I can ask some questions about how to
> use mencoder to re-encode all my miscellaneous videos (avi, mpg, wmf,
> etc.) into SVCD compatible mpeg streams.  I want to rescale to best
> scale, keep best possible sound, and keep good AV sync, all while
> producing strictly compliant SVCD's that will play on a standalone
> player.
> 
> I believe that the CODEC to encode with is MPEG2, but I don't know
> enough about it to be able to generate the correct mencoder command
> line args to produce the right MPEG2 stream because I don't know
> enough about what I want.  I also need to split some of them down to
> the size of 80 min CD's, and need a good way to do that.
> 
> Anyway, thanks in advance for anyone who can help, or any pointers if
> this is not the correct forum.
> 

try TOOLS/mencvcd
install mjpegtools before

-greg