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New entry: how to make a (S)VCD with MEncoder. Deleted entry: MP2 files are played out of the box.

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Badly interleaved files and <option>-cache</option> don't work well together.
Try <option>-nocache</option>.
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<question><para>
How can I play MPEG Layer 2 (MP2) audio files?
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<answer><para>
You have to use <option>-rawaudio on:format=0x50</option>.
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<title>Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</title>

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<question><para>
How can I create VCDs?
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<answer><para>
Try the <filename>mencvcd</filename> script from the <filename class="directory">TOOLS</filename>
subdirectory. With it you can encode DVDs or other movies to VCD or SVCD format
and even burn them directly to CD.
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Badly interleaved files and <option>-cache</option> don't work well together.
Try <option>-nocache</option>.
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<title>Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</title>

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<question><para>
How can I create (S)VCDs automatically?
</para></question>
<answer><para>
Try the <filename>mencvcd</filename> script from the <filename class="directory">TOOLS</filename>
subdirectory. With it you can encode DVDs or other movies to VCD or SVCD format
and even burn them directly to CD.
</para></answer>
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<question><para>
How can I create SVCDs?
</para></question>
<answer><para>
Newer versions of <application>MEncoder</application> can directly
generate MPEG-2 files that can be used as a base to create a (S)SVCD and
are likely to be playable out of the box on all platforms (for example
to share a video from a digital camcorder with your computer-illiterate
friends).
<screen>
mencoder -of mpeg -oac toolame -toolameopts br=224 -srate 44100 \
-af-adv force=1 -ovc lavc -mpegopts format=xsvcd -vf harddup -ofps 25 \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=25:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_minrate=600:vbitrate=2500:vrc_maxrate=2500 \
<replaceable>in.avi</replaceable> -o <replaceable>xsvcd.mpg</replaceable>
</screen>
This will convert the input file <replaceable>in.avi</replaceable> into
the output file <replaceable>xsvcd.mpg</replaceable>, converting the
audio with <systemitem class="library">toolame</systemitem> at 224kbps
and the video with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>.
</para><para>
Please note that in order to make the GOP structure SVCD compliant the
<option>keyint</option> option should be 15 for PAL and 18 for NTSC,
although very often files with much longer GOPs play correctly (25 should
never lead to any problem).
Also, even though leaving out <option>-ofps</option> should work in most
cases PAL requires <option>-ofps</option> 25 and NTSC
<option>-ofps</option> 30000/1001.
</para><para>
As far as the audio is concerned, SVCD only support MPEG-1 layer II audio,
therefore you have to use either
<systemitem class="library">toolame</systemitem>,
<systemitem class="library">twolame</systemitem>, or as a last resort
<systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s MPEG-1 layer II
encoder (as its quality is far from being as good as the former two
libraries).
Both <systemitem class="library">toolame</systemitem> and
<systemitem class="library">twolame</systemitem> follow the same syntax,
so you depending on which one you managed to install, the example only
requires a small chance, but if you need to use
<systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s MPEG-1 layer II
encoder, replace
<screen>
-oac toolame -toolameopts br=224
</screen>
by
<screen>
-oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224
</screen>
</para><para>
The resulting file <replaceable>xsvcd.mpg</replaceable> is an extended
SVCD (that is why it is called xsvcd), mainly because it does not contain
scan offsets, so if you need to generate an SVCD image out of it, you
should pass it to
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/vcdimager.html">vcdimager</ulink>.
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