On Monday, we had the 20 week ultrasound of our slowly ripening little geezer or geezette. A DVD was made of the event, which I have dutifully ripped and uploaded to the Internet.
The full nineteen minute version silent film is available in our gallery, but for those with less patience, the seven and a half minute embedded version below represents the first foray of a McKenna-Macdonald into the world of DIY YouTube flicks. Not bad for someone who hasn’t even been born yet.
For anyone who cares, the YouTube version of the DVD (comprising just the first two chapters) was encoded to Xvid, using mencoder as follows:
mencoder /media/SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB /media/SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB \ -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null |
mencoder /media/SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB /media/SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB \ -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=256 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o tmp.avi |
ogg123 -d wav -f sr.wav /media/audio/sigur_rós/takk/06_sæglópur.ogg |
mencoder tmp.avi -o echo.avi -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -audiofile sr.wav |
The final two commands were necessary to convert the file I wanted to use as the soundtrack from Ogg Vorbis format to WAV, and then to encode it into the video using variable bit rate MP3.