tiff to MPEG-1

[Jim Ruxton]

Thanks everyone, I'll give these suggestions a try. I have Mplayer but 
not sure that I have mencoder. I'll try to find it and give it a run.
Jim

>On Wednesday 14 January 2004 19:23, Taavi Burns wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:30:56PM -0500, GDHough wrote:
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>>>I have had good results using the mencoder portion of MPlayer. I believe
>>>there is limited support for creating MPEG's with mencoder, but it would
>>>
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>You must've seen the man pages for mplayer. It has more switches than Bell. I 
>understand there is support for mpeg's, but I haven't tried it yet.
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>>Does MPLEX do transcoding?  I should think that one would have to specify
>>MPEG-1 encoding with -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video, lest the default mpeg4
>>be used.  And really, even if MPLEX does transcoding, it'd be silly to
>>do so if not necessary.
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>Exactly, something the original poster should look into.
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>>Also the framerate of 25 is more applicable to PAL systems which aren't
>>that common in Canada.  29.94 (or just 30) would probably be more useful
>>depending on the display medium.
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>A minor technicality with one pass encoding of stills. What I placed in the 
>post was a quick paste from .bash_history, meant as an example. Perhaps the 
>original poster never even heard of mencoder. I think the actual value is 
>29.97 for telecined mpeg's. One has to dive into the software to achieve 
>their own personal requirements. The switch -of mpeg is beta, the default is 
>avi.
>
>Help from the experts may be found here:
>http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users
>
>And of course, trial and error if the accurate answer is absent.
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