freakshow@slackware:~$ idvid -fast cho.avi -------------------------------- idvid Video identification script Part of the tovid suite, version svn-r1004 with: core magick dvd vcd transcode plugins http://www.tovid.org -------------------------------- Gathering video information. This may take several minutes, so please be patient... ========================================================= File: cho.avi Width: 704 pixels Height: 396 pixels Aspect ratio: 1.77:1 Frames: 4079 Duration: 00:02:50 hours/mins/secs Framerate: 23.976 frames per second Video format: XVID Audio format: mp3 Video bitrate: 1399720 bits per second Audio bitrate: 192000 bits per second Audio channels: 2 channels Audio sampling rate: 48000 Hz ========================================================= Audio is compliant with the following formats: Not compliant with (S)VCD or DVD Video is compliant with the following formats: Not compliant with (S)VCD or DVD This video does not seem to be compliant with (S)VCD or DVD standards. If you burn it to a video disc, it may not work. ========================================================= freakshow@slackware:~$ idvid file1.mpg -------------------------------- idvid Video identification script Part of the tovid suite, version svn-r1004 with: core magick dvd vcd transcode plugins http://www.tovid.org -------------------------------- Gathering video information. This may take several minutes, so please be patient... ========================================================= File: file1.mpg Width: 352 pixels Height: 288 pixels Aspect ratio: 1.22:1 Frames: 0 Duration: 00:02:50 hours/mins/secs Framerate: 25.000 frames per second Video format: MPEG1 Audio format: mp2 Video bitrate: 1152000 bits per second Audio bitrate: 224000 bits per second Audio channels: 2 channels Audio sampling rate: 44100 Hz ========================================================= Audio is compliant with the following formats: VCD 1.1 VCD 2.0 2-channel 224000 bps SVCD Video is compliant with the following formats: 25.000 fps PAL VCD 2.0 25.000 fps MPEG1 PAL DVD-VCD You can burn this video to PAL VCD ========================================================= freakshow@slackware:~$ tovid -parallel -overwrite -pal -vcd -in cho.avi -out file1 -------------------------------- tovid DVD and (S)VCD video conversion script Version svn-r1004 with: core magick dvd vcd transcode plugins http://www.tovid.org -------------------------------- tovid command-line used: -parallel -overwrite -pal -vcd -in cho.avi -out file1 Using config file /home/freakshow/.tovid/tovid.config, containing the following options: (none) Changing to working directory: /home/freakshow ========================================================= Converting /home/freakshow/cho.avi to compliant PAL VCD format Saving to /home/freakshow/file1.mpg Storing log and temporary files in /home/freakshow/file1.0 ========================================================= Probing video for information. This may take several minutes... The encoding process is estimated to require 58 MB of disk space. You currently have 161 MB available in this directory. Analysis of file /home/freakshow/cho.avi: 704 x 396 pixels, 23.976 fps Duration (best guess): 00:02:50 (HH:MM:SS) XVID video with mp3 audio Target format: 352 x 288 pixels, 25.000 fps m1v video with mp2 audio 1150 kbits/sec video, 224 kbits/sec audio Using auto-detected aspect ratio of 177:100 (override with -aspect) Letterboxing vertically Input is not 25.000 fps. Framerate will be adjusted. Scaling picture to 352 x 224 Centering picture against a 352 x 288 black background ========================================================= Encoding audio stream to mp2 with the following command: nice -n 0 ffmpeg -i "/home/freakshow/cho.avi" -vn -ab 224 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -acodec mp2 -y "/home/freakshow/file1.0/audio.ac3" ========================================================= Encoding video stream with the following commands: nice -n 0 mplayer -benchmark -nosound -noframedrop -noautosub -vo yuv4mpeg:file="/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.yuv" -vf scale=352:224,expand=352:288 "/home/freakshow/cho.avi" cat "/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.yuv" | yuvfps -r 25:1 -v 0 | nice -n 0 mpeg2enc --sequence-length 700 --nonvideo-bitrate 237 --aspect 2 -f 1 -K hi-res --frame-rate 3 -v 0 --video-norm p --reduction-4x4 2 --reduction-2x2 1 -o "/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.m2v" Processing started. Please wait... ========================================================= Multiplexing audio and video together with the following command: mplex -f 1 -o "/home/freakshow/file1.mpg" "/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.m2v" "/home/freakshow/file1.0/audio.ac3" Processing started. Please wait... --- Encoding and multiplexing in parallel: 29 MB written to file1.mpg Multiplexing finished successfully Output files: /home/freakshow/file1.mpg /home/freakshow/file1.mpg (29M) ========================================================= ---------------------------------------- Final statistics ---------------- tovid svn-r1004 File: /home/freakshow/file1.mpg, 170 secs VCD PAL Final size: 29016 kilobytes Target bitrate: 1150 kbits/sec Average bitrate: 1141 kbits/sec Peak bitrate: 1359 kbits/sec Took 00:01:43 to encode on AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ 2166.528 mhz ----------------------------------------- Statistics written to /home/freakshow/.tovid/stats.tovid Cleaning up... removed `/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.yuv' Removing temporary files... removed `/home/freakshow/file1.0/video.m2v' removed `/home/freakshow/file1.0/tovid.log' removed `/home/freakshow/file1.0/tovid.scratch' removed `/home/freakshow/file1.0/audio.ac3' removed directory: `/home/freakshow/file1.0' ========================================================= Done! ========================================================= Your encoded video should be in the file(s) /home/freakshow/file1.mpg. Thanks for using tovid! =========================================================