Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

Hi all. I've got a whole bunch of dvd's of tv episodes that I'm trying to use tablet-encode on, but it seems I'm having troubles when I try to pass specific mencoder options. I'm doing this mainly because I've got two dvd drives that I want to use in tandem to speed up the process, so not only do I have to point mencoder to the correct drive, but with using two-pass encoding I have to specify different log file outputs so they don't collide. Lastly I want mencoder to boost the volume so I can actually hear the video when I'm riding on a bus or plane.

Here's my command line & the error I keep getting:

If I don't specify any of the mencoder options it works fine. Any ideas? TX

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

If you want to pass "-af 10" I think you need to do -maf -m10 or something like that I seem to remember. Or possibly -m-af -m10.

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

That worked. And after finally getting it to work, I realized that I can forget the passlogfile switch as well, because tablet-encode already does that based on the output file name.

Thanks for the tip.

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

Sorry, the documentation on this could be clearer. Suggestions (and patches) welcome :-)

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

No troubles. I guess my suggestion would be to allow one long string to be passed to mencoder so that multiple options or options with qualifiers can be passed with one -mencoder switch.

Given the time I'd offer a patch, but that's in very short supply right now (time that is, not patches :)).

TX

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

Trouble with this is you rapidly get into the problem of implementing your own shell command-line parsing (split on space, unless it's in a string, or escaped, ...)

Having said that, it may be necessary.

Heh, tell me about it.

Re: Trouble passing mencoder options via tablet-encode (Unable to get movie info)
 

I know what you mean. I've tried doing that for several shell scripts & it gets real messy pretty quick. The current work-around does just that, works. Don't sweat trying to make it pretty :).

Thanks again for the great tool. Converting a whole bunch of Babylon 5's right now & enjoying them greatly!