similar to: Using Theora Micro-HOWTO

Having built libtheora-1.0alpha3, I tried it out on a 46 second long, 161 MByte raw dv format video clip. First, I copied these lines from ogg-theora-microhowto.html <snip> mplayer -ao pcm -aofile stream.wav -vo null file_to_be_encoded.avi & mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao null -nosound file_to_be_encoded.avi & encoder_example -v 1 -a 1 stream.wav stream.yuv > theora_file.ogg

Hello. I'm trying to encode an Ogg Theora file from an unencrypted dvd using mplayer and encoder_example. I set up named pipes stream.wav and stream.yuv. I then run: mplayer -ao pcm -aofile stream.wav -vo null /dev/dvd & mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao null -nosound /dev/dvd & encoder_example -v1 -a 1 stream.wav stream.yuv > lec1.ogg but I get the following error: File stream.wav is

some of you may find this helpful: I've uploaded a short (5 second) raw clip in yuv4mpeg format, associated audio, and batch files to exercise the encoder & decoder examples. In addition I've included the file as compressed (test.ogg), and a longer version as well to test playback sync. Notes: to use MPlayer with the -vo yuv4mpeg option, you need to get the latest release and compile

Greetings, I was on IRC about 7 hours ago and suggested that the FAQ be updated slightly. Rather than sit on my ass and complain I figured I'd ask a few people, and see if the idea was worth the time. Here's what Ive started with: http://www.dimension.net.nz/theora.html I'll be adding to it over the next 24 hours - mostly in the area of Playback and Encoding. Just threw it together

Hi, I sent the message below a couple of months ago but I got no reply. Now that there's more activity perhaps someone could kindly provide me some guidance. Theora is great and the developers are doing a wonderful job, so I'd like to implement the codec in a way which does it justice... Original post: I wrote a plugin to enable LiVES (a video editor) to encode theora/vorbis/ogg files.

As was briefly discussed on IRC, ffmpeg and mplayer currently output two somewhat incompatible YUV4MPEG streams. This meant that encoder_example could take input from mplayer, but not ffmpeg or movtoy4m (a QuickTime->Y4M tool). This is a patch that fixes this issue and should allow encoder_example to take input from either format: diff -urd xiph-cvs/theora/examples/encoder_example.c

i am new in this mailing list i have written a script for theora (i am not sure that it is useful or not ? ) ========================================== #!/usr/bin/perl # ALL2theora based on Florian Schilhabel <florian.schilhabel@web.de> dvd2divx script (was under GPL) # we have made major changes to that script and now it can convert almost all video format to theora # all2theora depends

Hello, I'm new to the list, so if this is an FAQ, please point me to the relevant docs. I'm playing with Theora, to see what kind of quality I can expect (I realise its not for production use yet). I've download the source from CVS, and got it to build, with the example encoder and player. While trying to find something to serve as a good source of input, I decided I'd use a

As requested by Ralph in my introduction e-mail to this list [1], I've gone ahead and done some sample test timings for encoding between libtheora-1.0 and libtheora-1.1beta3, as available from the Theora website [2]. So far, I've tested with 4 different files that I generated with content I already have. The files, in brief, are the following: 1. planet-earth-360x240.yuv4mpeg - A

My first guess about the problem would be that the programs want to process the stuff in a different order, e.g. mplayer wants to output some sound before anymore video and encoder_example wants to receive some video before anymore sound. This could easily depend on the order of stuff in the file mplayer is reading. I guess something similar could happen for opening the pipes as well. The

I did a little poking about with the pcm-from-fifo problem I was having... What I'm attempting to do is an on-the-fly export from one file using mplayer to generate yuv4mpeg video frames and pcm audio, piped through fifo's. This DOES work with mpeg2enc/mp2enc, so I'm assuming it's not a problem with, e.g., my filesystem... the example encoder appears to successfully open and

I tried to encode some video from a DVD with encoder_example and ffmpeg2theora, and it looked great, except that with both encoders the A/V sync would drift noticeably after about 10 minutes, and by the end of a two hour movie it would be a couple seconds off. So instead of just whining about this and waiting for someone else to fix it, I decided to try to learn about what's causing the

hi all: i downloaded libtheora1.0.tar.gz from xiph.org, and when i compile it, such error message popped. i tried to run player_example.c under /libtheora_1.0/examples/. error message: ivysummer at ivysummer-desktop:~/??/libtheora-1.0/examples$ gcc -o player player_example.c /tmp/ccpyle3c.o: In function `buffer_data': player_example.c:(.text+0x15): undefined reference to

After a bunch of cumbersome testing I was able to transcode a Quicktime MOV file to OGG with theora and Vorbis. The method's a bit fumbly, but it works... It is automatable except for the initial audio decoding. Software used: Xine, oggenc, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, oggzmerge Step 1: Get the video out of Quicktime ffmpeg -i infile.mov -b 5000 -f mpeg2video outfile.mpg Step 2: Get the video

Hi, I wrote a plugin to enable LiVES (a video editor) to encode theora/vorbis/ogg files. I'm looking for some advice towards improving quality. If someone would like to help me test this please note that you'll need MPlayer, ImageMagick, sox, the encoder_example from libtheora (somewhere in the PATH), and Python 2.3.0 (this is fairly all standard stuff). Consider the following clip:

Hi, I sent this message to the theora list but I'm not sure if it got through (activity seems to be very low, regardless). I'm hoping I have better luck here. I wrote a plugin to enable LiVES (a video editor) to encode theora/vorbis/ogg files. I'm looking for some advice towards improving quality. If someone would like to help me test this please note that you'll need MPlayer,

Hi My PC is Intel Pentium P4-HT, running Linux kernel 2.6.0-test10. I have the latest GNU automake/autoconf system. The make fails on libtheora with the following error msgs: player_example.c:29:1: warning: "_REENTRANT" redefined player_example.c:1:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -D_REENTRANT -all-static -o

Hello, Could you kindly point me to some instruction, how to encode demuxed files (.m2v and .mp2) to .ogg (Theora + Vorbis)? I was trying to use ffmpeg2theora, but I don't know, how to put two files to ffmpeg2theora (one audio an one video) and did not found, how to mux them into one file? Exist a way, how to do two pass encoding? I'm using Ubuntu Fiesty Linux. Thank you, Jiri Navratil

The first error in CVS - fairly minor - is in the docs section: ---------------------------------------------------------------- make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/temp/oggstuff/theora/doc' python txt2py.py spec.txt spec.py python txt2html.py spec.txt spec.html make[1]: *** No rule to make target `testspec.raw', needed by `all-am'. Stop.

Hey everyone, I just got Theora running on my Mac, and ran across several hurdles, that I was wondering if someone could help me with. I do a lot of tech support at work, and get the same questions over and over, so I tried skimming the archives but couldn't find the answers. Maybe these could go in a FAQ of some sort? These are fairly unavoidable issues that should probably be