On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Marty wrote: > I am generating MPEG-2 files in hardware using the WinTV PVR-150 MCE. > About one in 20 files is rejected by dvdstyler as "not valid mpeg-file." > Mythtv and totem have no problems playing the files. The Mythtv video file > settings are all default as installed. Everything on my system is stock > sarge and debian-multimedia, all up-to-date.
just to double check -- are you sure that each of these recordings is encoded the same way? myth can be little unpredictable as to whether it transcode's or not. It took me a while to figure this out (using knoppmyth R5Bsomething). THe point is that I *thought* everything was being transcoded to the same way, but they weren't. worth a check. > > I have tried re-encoding with ffmpeg and mencoder, guessing at various > parameters, without success. I am not familiar enough with video in > general to easily debug this problem. If I bypass dvdstyler, mpgtx rejects > the file. If I then use the mpgtx -X option, forcing mpgtx to search for a > valid mpeg header, then later on mplex fails. Any help is appreciated. > try avidemux. it has an automagical "dvd" setting... A
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