Automated Cutting and Transcoding Guide Using Mencoder

[-stattik-]

I would like to be able to select the encoding method used from within pastro's skiptool plugin. It is possible to pass the encoding method to this script as a command line argument from within skiptool?

(Apologies if I have not understood u correctly)

I'm not sure what you mean here. The way pastro's plugin calls my script is detailed here:

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...tcount=430

I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for though.

[gEd]

that is exactly what is needed, thanks

[mkenyon2]

Yea... actually, I just wanted to look at putting Divx in the list.

The reason is, I'm getting a car stereo that does DVDs, and it says it does Divx files. Well, all my stuff has been in Xvid, but I'd like to try to play it in this... so I was going to try a few in Divx.

However, I read somewhere that xvid should work in anything that is Divx compatible.

This is outside the scope of the script, but gives some background for my question. The radio comes today, and should be installed tomorrow. I'll try some Xvid.

stattik:
If I have this:
"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "2" "y" "3 5"

what would I change the 2 to to get Divx?

[-stattik-]

Yea... actually, I just wanted to look at putting Divx in the list.

The reason is, I'm getting a car stereo that does DVDs, and it says it does Divx files. Well, all my stuff has been in Xvid, but I'd like to try to play it in this... so I was going to try a few in Divx.

However, I read somewhere that xvid should work in anything that is Divx compatible.

This is outside the scope of the script, but gives some background for my question. The radio comes today, and should be installed tomorrow. I'll try some Xvid.

I'd try burning a few if the xvid files you have already on CDRW or DVD-RW media. Depending on the resolution limits, they should play but there may be issues with A/V synch.

stattik:
If I have this:
"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "2" "y" "3 5"

what would I change the 2 to to get Divx?

The script has no options for Divx but there are a few things you can try.

Use the version of the script that comes with pastro's plugin.

If the xvid plays but there is A/V synch issues, try this:

Code:

"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "2" "n" "3 5"

If that doesn't work, there another option that was originally created for DVD players that supported Divx. It had limited testing.

Code:

"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "8" "y" "3 5"

or

Code:

"C:\path\to\stattik_transcode_0.5.1g.bat" "C:\path\to\show.mpg" "8" "n" "3 5"

[tal56]

I'm trying to use this to re-encode some mpeg files, however it's crashing because the filenames have chinese (unicode) characters in them. If I rename the file, then it runs fine. I'm just using it by dragging the video onto the batch file.

Is there anyone who's ran into this before, or may have a solution? I'm not sure if it's because it uses dos which dosen't like unicode or if it's because mencoder does not support unicode. I've tried google for more info but haven't found anything that has helped. Thanks

[gEd]

it crashes with some ascii characters as well such as "&".
I believe it is to do with how the dos parser works and I am not aware of a solution to this problem.

[-stattik-]

I'm trying to use this to re-encode some mpeg files, however it's crashing because the filenames have chinese (unicode) characters in them. If I rename the file, then it runs fine. I'm just using it by dragging the video onto the batch file.

Is there anyone who's ran into this before, or may have a solution? I'm not sure if it's because it uses dos which dosen't like unicode or if it's because mencoder does not support unicode. I've tried google for more info but haven't found anything that has helped. Thanks

I was reading this link http://fixunix.com/ms-dos/21121-enable-u...alent.html

You could try the following command:

Code:

cmd /u /k stattik_transcode.bat "c:\path\to\sourcefile"

[tal56]

Thanks for the suggestion, however I've tried that already as I've found the same site haha. Oh well I guess I'll try to find another way around this. For some reason I don't find windows xp supports unicode very well, windows 2k was much better for this. Even though I've added the languages I use, and extended the service to other programs through the xp language setup, most programs still have a lot of problems with the unicode support.

[-stattik-]

Here's a shot in the dark. Perhaps you could get one of the renaming utilities from the wiki to rename the file and update the database.

[tal56]

That's partly my frustration with XP, as I've used a program in the past called Karen Directory Printer to save a directory name, then use a rename utility to rename by list, this worked beautifully in Win2k but with XP none of these 3rd party programs seem to have unicode support.

Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll check out the programs in the wiki and maybe one will work with any luck haha.