I would like to use Andrew's 770-encode put a dvd movie that I own on my 770 for traveling. My plan is to do the ripping, encoding, and storing to MMC on a conveniently available Windows XP Pro laptop, and then transfer the MMC to the 770. I haven't quite got it yet, and would ask for suggestions to identify and correct whatever it is I am doing wrong.


Here's what I've tried so far:

Downloaded and installed Joey Parrish's MPlayer packages from http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ (this is a Windows binary installer package with mplayer, mencoder, and the codecs)

Downloaded and installed ActivePerl from http://activestate.com

Downloaded 770-encode.pl from Andrew's www.bleb.org/software/770

Put a DVD in the drive and executed '770-encode.pl -s dvd://1 avi.out' from a "cmd" box.


Here's what happened:

Got this message: "mplayer doesn't support FFmpeg lavc encoder"


Any suggestions to correct whatever it is I am doing incorrectly?

Thank you.

Regards,

DG


[Edit] P.S. mplayer is working-- I can play a DVD on the laptop using it.

I use DVD Catalyst and seem to work just fine for me.
dvdcatalyst.com

Basically the error is saying your version of mencoder doesn't support DivX encoding.

I think I got the version of mencoder I know to work from the mplayer website itself:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html - "MPlayer 1.0pre8 Windows build"

HTH,

Andrew

Andrew, that might be the same issue I has since he is using XP.


Just a reminder: \Q$file\E becomes just $file

Luna: did you get the "mencoder doesn't support lavc" message with the excessive shell escaping? I'm afraid I can't remember.

I think that was one of the issues that we saw. Sounds familiar.

OK. I deinstalled my mplayer binaries, and downloaded and installed from mplayerhq.hu. This time I also made sure that the codecs were in the codecs directory. (Don't know if they were there the last time.)

Tried running '770-encode.pl -s dvd://1 avi.out'.

This time I got "Failed to get movie info".

Any further thoughts or suggestions?

Thank you.

DG

Right, this might be the thing Luna saw:

Change "\Q$file\E" in the movieInfo() function to just "$file".

HTH,

Andrew

Worked like a charm.

Thank you, Andrew and Luna.

DG

I've uploaded v1.34 which has more Windows specific code to avoid this issue. However, there may be issues if you have shell-sensitive characters in a file name.

Cheers,

Andrew