<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Yamuna Jivana dasa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">First, if changing the speedlevel parameter to 0 or using the Optimize parameter, and an output file is not specified, the encoder does not automatically assume the same input Filename.avi to output Filename.ogv.</span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I use the --optimize option without specifying an output file and it does behave correctly for me (i.e., saving the same filename .ogv in the same directory as the input file.) Perhaps you could share some more specific details about what you're experiencing?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The playback of the files, whether or not I play them in Mediaplayer, Winamp or another player, produces a very distorted audio playback, which sounds more like audio distortion of chipmunks through an overdrive guitar filter, (for lack of a better description).</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The video is upsidedown in Winamp but looks correct in Mediaplayer.</font></div></span></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do they play correctly in VLC (<a href="http://videolan.org/vlc.">http://videolan.org/vlc.</a>) This may help to point things in the correct direction of the problem.</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">What do I do if I want to create a straight .ogv file out of a DVD video, wherein there is the Audio_ts and Video_ts folders? You know, from regular DVD Videos.</span></span></blockquote><div><br></div>ffmpeg2theora really isn't the best programing for use with DVDs. You can feed .vob files to ffmpeg2theora, but you may find that things are not arranged in the way you'd expect: It's normal for multiple DVD titles to be muxed across multiple VOB files, so you need to find a way to demux the desired title out of the various VOB files first or find a program (such as HandBrake or Thoggen) that does everything for you.</div></body></html>