xboxboy Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Hi all, I have a new Television with an USB connection for multimedia. I have formatted an external hard disk to FAT32 as is required. Problem is the TV reads Mpeg1 and Mpeg2 according to the documentation. Most of my stuff is in *.AVI format. I tried for several hours using VLC to carry out the conversion but I kept getting the error message "VLC could not open the encoder". I have installed every codec I could find, but still got the same message. I hove confirmed that using ffmpeg -i input.avi -sameq output.mpg output.mpg does indeed play on the TV. By using ffmpeg as above is the output file a mpeg1 or mpeg2? And is mpeg2 better than mpeg1? Any other advice most appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 You can see some details of the video file, including which codecs are used, by using the command ffmpeg -i output.mpg Note that the video and audio codecs used in your avi file may already be the codecs you want. If so, use the "copy" special value to specify that the raw codec data must be copied as is, see the ffmpeg man page for details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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