Creating a DVD-player compatible movie file
- by Robert Munteanu
I've created encoded a MPEG-4 file with mplayer and placed it on a DVD. The file is identified as
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, 25.00 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: uncompressed PCM (stereo, 96000 Hz)
I've tried playing it on a Samsung 1080p DVD player and the codecs were not recognised. There are no firmware upgrades available for my region (Romania).
How should I pick the codecs to make sure that the files are readable by this DVD player?
Update: The command line I used is similar to
mencoder -dvd 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o movie.avi
mencoder -dvd 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -oac copy -o movie.avi