similar to: A/V sync strategies

Hello, I am looking for a way to convert VCD tracks to theora. I'd rather a command line tool. What would you suggest me? I already found I can do that with mplayer, by ripping to yuv and wav, then using the encoder_example to compress to theora, but would there be another better way? -- ASPO Infog?rance http://aspo.rktmb.org/activites/infogerance Unofficial FAQ fcolc

Hi, I've been thinking about how a Theora encoder could be integrated into mencoder or transcode and I'm not sure whether I understand the A/V sync strategy of Theora/Vorbis correctly. When transcoding from some video format (ie MPEG2 or DivX), at least some images of the video stream will have time stamps, as well as the fragments of the audio stream. Or at least time stamps can be

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

ffmpeg2theora 0.22 is out - http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora * enable v4l input again (-f video4linux or -f video4linux2) * ability to set framerate for image sequences (--inputfps) * fix several memory leaks * if only width or height are given, the other is set to preserve aspect ratio * -start / -end options now work with audio only input * new option --novideo to disable video

ffmpeg2theora 0.22 is out - http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora * enable v4l input again (-f video4linux or -f video4linux2) * ability to set framerate for image sequences (--inputfps) * fix several memory leaks * if only width or height are given, the other is set to preserve aspect ratio * -start / -end options now work with audio only input * new option --novideo to disable video

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

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

Hey all! I'm sure you've all been missing my webcam stream, so I decided to start it up again (also, I wanted to do it for my family overseas). However, this time, I'm doing things a little bit differently. For starters, the encoder is the current (as of about an hour ago) ptalarbvorm branch which is destined to become libtheora 1.2. Another difference is that I'm using

Okay, thanks to some stubbornness on my part and helpfulness on the part of people on this mailing list, I got the Ogg Theora alpha compiled up and installed and running. Yesterday, I went to the Prelinger archives (the public-domain video archive at www.archive.com) to find a high-quality original to re-encode as a test. The encoder worked just fine, and playback as well, and I thought I'd

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

I had some shows on tivo that I figured I wanted to keep on a CD in case I might ever want to watch them again. (Not that you care, butthis really is for my own personal use. I wouldn't have the bandwidth to "share" this stuff even if I wanted to.) So I downloaded a 1 hour show with TiVo ToGo, and I jumped through a few hoops to "free the mpeg", and I got a nice 2 GB

libshout 2.2 has just been released. It's a fairly minor update: * Speex support (this is why it's 2.2 instead of 2.1.1) * Theora timing fix * Double-free bug, response parser bug on failed login fixed. It's at http://www.icecast.org/download.php

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

Hello! I'm trying to use ffmpeg2theora to encode raw (.yuv) files in I420 format (just frames, no headers at all), but failed to find corresponding input format. Is there any documentation of supported formats for ffmpeg2theora? Or maybe there is another command-line tool for Windows to encode raw video using Theora algorithm? Thank you for help! Alexander.

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

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

Can someone enlighten me on what the status is of aspect ratio in theora is ? The ti structure has aspect_num and _den values, which I assume give the intended display aspect ratio (e.g. 4/3). The sample files on the bittorrent seem to say both values are 0 for all files. I'd think it should at least be made impossible to have a 0 as the denominator. The library doesn't check the

"... we need a baseline to work from - one standard format that (if all else fails) everything can fall back to. This doesn?t need to be the most complex format, or the most advertised format, or even the format with the most companies involved in its creation. All it needs to do is to be available, everywhere. The codec in the frame for this is Ogg Theora..." :)

Hi! I'm using Icecast 2.3.1 (xubuntu Hardy) and have problems moving listeners. I thought it had to do with the client, but now that I've tested cortado, mplayer and vlc I've begun to think it is actually the server. I'm using the web administration interface to move listeners, get '1' as result code but all clients hang after the buffer is empty. Any ideas/pointers?

Hello, I'm using ffmpeg2theora.linux to encode video casts from http://digit.cz For one particular episode 24, I discovered two issues: 1. minor one - at beginnig, software is reporting very big and long result ffmpeg2theora.linux digit24.mp4 Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'digit24.mp4': Duration: 00:42:41.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1177 kb/s Stream #0.0(eng):