Hello !
I tried mencoder/mengui to encode small .vob video files (thx-trailer) to mpeg4 (avi), but i am not happy with the results...

Problem No. 1: The quality is bad although i choosed the maximum bitrate (vbitrate). Seems different bitrate-setting has no effect on the result !?

Problem No. 2: IDE/DMA Bug ? Encoding stops sometimes and IDE-
LED is always on - nothing more happens... have to Reset !
(Peg with April 2)

That 2 Probs make Mencoder useless on Pegasos for me...
Did somebody obtain other results ?

ciao

1) check you have no frameno.avi file remaining from previous
encoding and try again while setting all mpeg4 options to off except
vqscale set to 4

2) that's it

I just gave it a try and I haven't experienced
any lockups on encoding several files but the
quality isn't the best. I only tried via the
GUI which had all of the options ghosted out.
Is this normal for now?

Thx for your answers and tips,i will give it a new try later this evening...

@realstar
You can enable options by setting the checkmark on the left side for every line...

Hi !

There is a "workaroud" for the IDE locks problem:

When you ar about to encode something launch UnitControl
(sys:Tools/UnitControl), and set all you CD/DVD Drive to "no
removable"

It should avoid IDE locks but you can't change the disk properly.

Hi!

You can specify the size of the encoded file with the

-endpos <time/byte position> option.

Some examples out of the documentation:

-endpos 56 = encode only 56 seconds
-endpos 01:10:00 = encode 1 hour 10 mins
-endpos 10b = encode only 100 MBytes


Greets! Bo

@NicoPPC

Quote:

Is there any other workarounds?

I mean, my Pegasos IDE ends up freezing EVERYTHING every now and then while I'm doing something such as :

- copying a big file over my network to/from my pegasos
- burning a CD with MakeCD
- Sometimes when playing a DivX (quite rare tho)

I've been trying to pin-point every bit of what could be causing the problem and as my Pegasos never had the April fix, I'm wondering if this could be the only reason.


.!.!.
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Oh, and BTW, I was going to make modifications to my resume with PageStream, but when I loaded it up, there was no display inside the document window ; no fonts, no images (Paths are all OK, fonts load in my font selector, etc). I loaded many documents (in case my resume was corrupted) but they all ended up showing nothing at all. Is this a known issue on MOS 1.4?


Thanks,
Fred

THX, but this is not what i exactly mean...

If i encode for i.e. a complete Movie from DVD, how
can i calculate the size of the result (divx) file ?
It is important if you want to burn it on CD..
I think the only way to "set" the size is by changing to
bitrate, but i can not get mencoder to work with this.

Has somebody here encoded a full DVD-Movie to DivX ?

Regards

@the guy with red hair

about "IDE workaround":

In the beta2-ML someone wrote that he solved the problem by setting
the buffer-size of partitions to 30.
I did'nt verified this until now, but it seems to work for him...
If you have problems burning iso-images (or files) from hardisk to cd
via MakeCD, try to set the Chunk-size to 256 !
In my case it helped very well

I think the the IDE-Lookup mostly occours when transferring data
between primary and secondary IDE Port.
In worst cases you have to change your IDE-Configuration, for i.e.
set harddisk and cd-writer to the same IDE-Port.