Re: MPEG-2 Problems

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:16 -0600, Brian Brice wrote:
> Greetings,
> I've been testing some code for outputting MPEG-2 videos and I've been 
> having some problems.  First I checked what was wrong with my code, then 
> tried to verify things with the main ffmpeg program.  It seems the 
> program does the same.  The problem that I'm getting is that the MPEG-2 
> video format that ffmpeg outputs doesn't seem to be correct.  In all of 
> the players I've tested with, the duration time of the video is WAY off 
> (such as really huge or even a negative number), and others can't even 
> play it.  Here's a sample invocation of ffmpeg that I've used:
> 
>     ffmpeg -i ffmpeg-sample.mpg test.m2v
> 
> The "ffmpeg-sample.mpg" is the file produced by the output_example 
> program, but the problem persists with any kind of input video.  I did 
> try converting the file with:
> 
>     ffmpeg -i ffmpeg-sample.mpg -vcodec mpeg2video test.mpg
> 
> This used the mpeg output format and mpeg2video codec, which the regular 
> mpeg output format seems to be for MPEG-1.
> 
> Anyone else experience this?  Any solutions?  Is the mpeg2video output 
> format "complete" or what?  Thanks in advance.  :-)

You might want to supply the CONTAINER, which in this case should be vob
(mpeg2 program stream). If you don't, mpeg1 systems stream will be used.

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