ATSC Recording file size increased

[wintermute]

sub, Can you help?

On an HDTV recording (recorded straight to an mpg file) that was 6.4GB for a one hour show I attempted to run mencoder. It kept flashing through it, exiting and creating a 0KB mpg file.
I ran the option manually (see below) and it was erroring out (see at the bottom of the results). What is causing that and can I correct it for the HDTV recordings that create a larger file? It appears that the mpeg2video cannot handle the higher fps. Can this be adjusted/fixed?
Thanks

G:\Support\UPDATES\HDTV EPG\mplayer>G:\Support\UPDATES\HDTVEP~1\mplayer\me ncoder
.exe "G:\My Videos\Star Trek\Star Trek- Enterprise.mpg" -edl "G:\My Videos\Star
Trek\Star Trek- Enterprise.edl" -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dv
d -vf filmdint,softskip,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vr
c_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=4000:keyint=18 -o "G:\My Videos\Star Trek\Star Trek-Ente
rprise new.mpg"
MEncoder dev-CVS-060323-00:54-4.0.2 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Sempron/Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred; Duron Applebred (
Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

91 audio & 206 video codecs
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x8b4f5f33
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 1280x720 (aspect 3) 59.940 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2 fourcc:0x10000002 size:1280x720 fps:59.94 ftime:=0.0167
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using 3DNowEx optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
PACKET SIZE: 2048 bytes
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [softskip]
Opening video filter: [filmdint]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
================================================== ========================
audiocodec: framecopy (format=2000 chans=2 rate=48000 bits=16 B/s=24000 sample-1
)
Limiting audio preload to 0.4s
Increasing audio density to 4
Read 7 EDL actions.
VDec: vo config request - 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
videocodec: libavcodec (1280x720 fourcc=3267706d [mpg2])
[mpeg2video @ 00A72E48]MPEG1/2 does not support 19001/317 fps
Could not open codec.
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

Exiting...

[sub]

Sorry, I've never used mencoder, so there isnt really anything I can add.

[-stattik-]

Thanks stattik, I will give that a try on the smaller digital recordings.

Tell me how it works out.