Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 28, 2006 14:56 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools (Linux.com) by man_ls
Parent article: Convert any video file to DVD with open source tools (Linux.com)

Bugs and misfeatures in mencoder are legion.

It is amazing that you have to in many cases guess the framerate of the source data and inform mencoder of this on the command line, and even when correct it will still randomly drop frames. I'm sure some mplayer developer will come out of the woodwork and provide some longwinded rationale for why in the contorted worldview of the mplayer codebase this makes sense, but from a use case, it doesn't. Mplayer knows how to decode the source format, not me. Why is there no way to transform the video stream from one format to another without drastically altering time timescale of the result (which invariably happens).

Then there are the frequent crashbugs, and the invalidly created headers on output files and so on and so on.

mencoder is an unfortunate necessity when working with proprietary formats which have not been strongly reverse engineered, but when you can avoid them, avoid mencoder/mplayer too.

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