DVD -> SVCD with FreeBSD?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:22:14 +0100
Jim Hatfield <subscriber at insignia.com> wrote:

> I tried mencoder. The ports version won't produce mpeg2 (at
> least not with libavcodec). The version from the mplayer site
> will, but the results look like "modern art". I got the same
> with transcode, though it's a while since I used it. ffmpeg 
> won't even build on my AMD-Duron based 5.1 machine (though
> to be fair it will on my PIII Celeron 4.9 machine). The package
> of ffmpeg doesn't support mpeg2 encoding. mjpegtools has an 
> mpeg2 encoder but not a decoder.

If by "modern art" you mean looks very blocky... try increasing the
bitrate.