RMVB files

[streetwise]

What is the quality of RMVB files like?

 

[celtic_druid]

Anything from really, really crap to excellent. You can't judge quality purely on the container. Although in this case you know that the video is RV9/10, however you can't base quality purely on that either. RV10 is just RV9 EHQ by the way.

 

[streetwise]

Which app would you recommend to convert it to VCD or SVCD?

 

[celtic_druid]

TMPGEnc is probably the easiest although I have heard of people having problems with the audio not converting.

 

[streetwise]

TMPGEnc is probably the easiest although I have heard of people having problems with the audio not converting.

And right they are! i converted from RMVB to VCD and got the video without the sound. Any solutions?

 

[celtic_druid]

Decode the audio first or just encode it seperatly.
mplayer.exe -ao pcm -vo null -vc dummy input.rmvb -aofile output.wav should work.
Could also try mencoder with -oac toolame to convert the audio directly to mp2.

 

[streetwise]

I tried using mplayer. I installed MinGW for mplayer to work with windows xp. I typed the parameters exactly as you have given them in the parameters line. But whenever I click "start" it stops after a second. Am i doing anything wrong?

 

[celtic_druid]

You compiled it yourself? Because you ownly need mingw if you are compiling it. Reall support is set to autodetect, but was it enabled when you compiled? Also did you copy the real dll's to your codecs dir?

If you are missing a codec though it should complain about not being able to load it.
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html

 

[streetwise]

Winavi did the job. Thanks for your help Celtic. Boy your knowledge of encoding etc. amazes me.