correct this code for me? I'm not sure whats going wrong.. MENCODER

[AlexOnVinyl]

alex@griever:~/Videos$ mencoder Immortals.2011.720p.BRRip.x264-x0r.mkv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate:800 -oac copy -o Immortals-2011-720-.avi

and here's the output:

MEncoder svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Error parsing option on the command line: -xvidencopts

I also tried this:

alex@griever:~/Videos$ mencoder Immortals.2011.720p.BRRip.x264-x0r.mkv -ovc xvid bitrate:800 -oac copy -o Immortals-2011-720-.avi

and got the following:

MEncoder svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x7a1b4576
libavformat version 53.21.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
libavformat file format detected.
[matroska,webm @ 0xb6b91d80]max_analyze_duration reached
[matroska,webm @ 0xb6b91d80]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (ac3), -aid 0, -alang eng
[lavf] stream 2: subtitle (text), -sid 0, -slang eng
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x690 0bpp 23.976 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:44 fourcc:0x34363248 size:1280x690 fps:23.976 ftime:=0.0417
xvid: using library version 1.3.2 (build xvid-1.3.2)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
================================================== ========================
audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=6 rate=48000 bits=0 B/s=56000 sample-0)
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
Pos: 0.0s 2f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.004 [0:0]
Movie-Aspect is 1.86:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: XviD (1280x690 fourcc=44495658 [XVID])
xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=1280x690, sampled=1280x690
xvid: you must specify one or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'fixed_quant' settings
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Please help correct my code?

[enkay009]

It's been a while since I've used mencoder so I may not have the definitive answer for you. I used to downscale video all the time for my old portable device. So I dug around in my old scripts and this is what I found.

Encoding options are seperated by semicolon ( : )

So when you wrote...

-xvidopts bitrate:800

... mencoder thought you were specifying two different options. One called bitrate and one called 800. It didn't understand that you meant the value.

Try this instead...

-xvidencopts bitrate=800

And if you have another option (like two pass encoding), you'd modify that to...

-xvidencopts bitrate=800:pass=2

[AlexOnVinyl]

It's been a while since I've used mencoder so I may not have the definitive answer for you. I used to downscale video all the time for my old portable device. So I dug around in my old scripts and this is what I found.

Encoding options are seperated by semicolon ( : )

So when you wrote...

-xvidopts bitrate:800

... mencoder thought you were specifying two different options. One called bitrate and one called 800. It didn't understand that you meant the value.

Try this instead...

-xvidencopts bitrate=800

And if you have another option (like two pass encoding), you'd modify that to...

-xvidencopts bitrate=800:pass=2

How can I set it to do both a 1 and 2 pass in 1 process?

[AlexOnVinyl]

Bump

[enkay009]

How can I set it to do both a 1 and 2 pass in 1 process?

They're mutually exclusive options.

pass=1 means single pass
pass=2 means double pass (not pass #2)

[AlexOnVinyl]

Would you be able to help me out with making this into a bash script?

I need to some how fit the `$f` into the script so that I can right click and execute the script and it fills in the filename with the one selected?

[enkay009]

Would you be able to help me out with making this into a bash script?

I need to some how fit the `$f` into the script so that I can right click and execute the script and it fills in the filename with the one selected?

I don't mean to palm you off to the Internet, but... have a look at this guide:

http://linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial

It's gives you some examples that you can play with to get a feel for Bash scripting (passing arguments, if/else, loops, etc.). If you're like me and you learn by doing, I suggest you try the examples and make slight modifications to understand exactly what it's doing.

And then if you want to further your Bash education:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

I remember going through one of those when I started using Linux seriously. The last one I still use as a reference today.

[AlexOnVinyl]

I don't mean to pawn you off to the Internet, but... have a look at this guide:

http://linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial

It's gives you some examples that you can play with to get a feel for Bash scripting (passing arguments, if/else, loops, etc.). If you're like me and you learn by doing, I suggest you try the examples and make slight modifications to understand exactly what it's doing.

And then if you want to further your Bash education:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

I remember going through one of those when I started using Linux seriously. The last one I still use as a reference today.

no worries man, yeah ive been using Ubuntu since August of last year and it was at first hectic but now a lot of things are very useful, better than just point and click like how Windows was haha

[AlexOnVinyl]

I don't mean to palm you off to the Internet, but... have a look at this guide:

http://linuxconfig.org/Bash_scripting_Tutorial

It's gives you some examples that you can play with to get a feel for Bash scripting (passing arguments, if/else, loops, etc.). If you're like me and you learn by doing, I suggest you try the examples and make slight modifications to understand exactly what it's doing.

And then if you want to further your Bash education:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

I remember going through one of those when I started using Linux seriously. The last one I still use as a reference today.

I keep getting the following when trying to encode the audio

file: MP3 audio selected.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81

Here's the command I'm running:
alex@griever:~

/Videos$ mencoder Immortals.2011.720p.BRRip.x264-x0r.mkv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=800:pass=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=1 -o Immortals.2011.720p.BRRip.xviD.avi

---------------------------------

Some more output:

1 duplicate frame(s)!
Pos: 1.2s 29f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 9min 47mb A-V:0.084 [98:169]]

Skipping frame!
Pos: 1.9s 48f ( 0%) 13.11fps Trem: 56min 285mb A-V:0.051 [1081:192Pos: 2.0s 49f ( 0%) 12.24fps Trem: 61min 310mb A-V:0.055 [1170:193Pos: 2.0s 50f ( 0%) 12.10fps Trem: 63min 323mb A-V:0.051 [1201:195