> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Charles Goyard <c...@fsck.fr> wrote:

>> Hi list,

>> I'm sure I saw a document somewhere about that, but I can't find it
>> anymore.

> Is this it ?
> http://code.dyne.org/veejay/tree/veejay-current/veejay-server/doc/How...

>> So, the question is : what's the recommended encoding for video and
>> audio ? I'm asking because I currently use mjpeg and pcm, and get a lot
>> of complains from veejay, related to audio. However, everything works
>> :-/.

> MJPEG and PCM (8 or 16 bit LE) is OK

>> Here is how I encode my videos:

>> mencoder -ovc lavc -oac pcm -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -vf
>> scale=1024:768,harddup -noskip -skiplimit 1

>> Here are the messages I get:

>> [avi @ 0xaab5cae0] parser not found for codec pcm_s16le, packets or times
>> may be invalid.

> Also I sometimes have to encode certain videos two times, like :

>> mencoder (options) -o intermediate.avi original.avi
>> mencoder (options) -o transcoded.avi intermediate.avi

>> to get everything correct. If I don't do that, in veejay, the last frame
>> of videos does not pass through the effect chain. Since I use the flip
>> frame effect, it look weird :).

>> Any advice/hint welcome !

> Maybe you can try a different encoder, see if there's something going on
> with libav*
> You will need mplayer and the mjpegtools for this

> 1. Write video to YUV pipe

> $ mkfifo stream.yuv
> $ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm:file=/tmp/sound.wav movie.avi

> 2. second terminal, read YUV pipe and write to MJPEG file
> $ cat stream.yuv |yuv2lav -f a -o mjpeg-movie.avi
> $ lavaddwav <...>

> Good luck,

>> Cheers,
>> Charles

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> 1. Write video to YUV pipe

> $ mkfifo stream.yuv
> $ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm:file=/tmp/sound.wav movie.avi

> 2. second terminal, read YUV pipe and write to MJPEG file
> $ cat stream.yuv |yuv2lav -f a -o mjpeg-movie.avi
> $ lavaddwav <...>

> 1. Write video to YUV pipe

> $ mkfifo stream.yuv
> $ mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg -ao pcm:file=/tmp/sound.wav movie.avi

> 2. second terminal, read YUV pipe and write to MJPEG file
> $ cat stream.yuv |yuv2lav -f a -o mjpeg-movie.avi
> $ lavaddwav <...>