[vdr] Converting VDR to MPEG-4 with 2divx

[Seppo Ingalsuo <seppo.ingalsuo@iki.fi>]

I don't have a DVD burner so I need to convert some recordings to CD-R
friendly formats. I could fix 2divx160pre4 to work and the result with
PVAs was quite good but it is not available for > 2G input files.
Without PVAs I get avi files (tried all xvid, divx and lavc modes )
which cannot be skipped with mplayer controls. After skip the sound
track gets usually stuck to loop of couple of seconds while video
continues. Perhaps VDR editing or DVB-T errors break the stream so
mencoder doesn't understand it any more.

Next I tried 2divx2.0pre0b18. It should cope > 2G input with ds.jar.
Google found a download location, I hope the author doesn't mind. After
installing to a Debian testing based system libg++ for gcc 2.95.4
(String.h and some other header files seems not to be available in more
recent g++ versions) I got it compiled but now it stops to a runtime
error:

seppo@kettu % gdb ./2divx      
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...
(gdb) run
"/opt/vdr/%007_ja_kuoleman_katse_(K)/2003-03-24.21:14.50.50.rec"
Starting program: /home/seppo/src/vdr/2divx2.0build18/2divx
"/opt/vdr/%007_ja_kuoleman_katse_(K)/2003-03-24.21:14.50.50.rec"
*** Info: Multiple Input Files (001.vdr up to 002.vdr) found ...
*** Warning: VBitrate drops below specified minimum value in MVR_MP3 !
***   Encoding anyway using lower bitrate of 701kbit/s
***   Add further Media Combinations to 2divx.conf to avoid this ...
*** Encoding with a Videobitrate of 701kbits/s - creating a file of
~785MB
String Error: invalid index

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x400fda51 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x400fda51 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x400fd872 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x400fe986 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x40056c07 in default_two_arg_error_handler () from
/usr/lib/libg++-libc6.2-2.so.3
#4  0x4003908a in String::error () from /usr/lib/libg++-libc6.2-2.so.3
#5  0x0804af68 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffb04)
    at
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/../../../../include/g++-3/String.h:897
(gdb) 

Has someone managed to get this other scripts to work with acceptable
results? 

If not, is purchasing of DVD burner feasible, is it possible to make
normal DVDs (without MS-Windows) from edited VDR recordings?

Thanks,
Seppo

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Seppo Ingalsuo - seppo.ingalsuo@iki.fi



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