HOWTO: FFMPEG (Avi to vcd, svcd)

[MihaiM]

I use Avidemux and cdrdao and works great.

[zba78]

Just to let you all know, there is a very easy to use app called tovid. get it at http://tovid.berlios.de/en/index.html

It's just a bunch of scripts that uses mencoder (amongst others) to encode to DVD format. It's slower then ffmpeg but gives higher quality (in my experiance).

Personally I just use ffmpeg.

[eduarm76]

After enconding a big avi file I endup with a 1.2Gb mpeg , I couldn't find a way to burn this image in two CDs with k3b. Is there a way to do this?

[JMO707]

Question: When I make ffmpeg -i /media/cdrom/archive.avi -target ntsc-svcd -s 704x394 -padtop 32 -padbottom 32 /home/jmo/archive.mpg because without those specifications, it result in a stretched image and with lower res, for what Im afraid that in the TV it will look ugly, I loose the subtitles. Can I add them to the resulting mpg?, I got te .srt file.

Thanks.