MPEG header error

[junior15]

I noticed nobody has replied to this message. I was wondering if 
that was because nobody has seen these errors before and can't help 
me or if somebody has seen them, but doesn't know what the are, or 
if I just screwed something up and everyone thinks that I'm a 
complete moron :)

I am very anxious to start burning my shows to VCD's, especially 
since there are a couple of marathons in the next week that I would 
like to archive. As I stated in an earlier email, I am somewhat 
familiar with linux, am very familiar with windoze, am new to VCD 
creation (but have learned quite a bit already and am willing to 
learn), am willing to try almost anything, and will take any advice 
anybody can give.

Even if nobody knows how to fix the error I'm getting, if anybody 
knows of another way for me to get my shows to a VCD, please either 
reply to this message or email me directly at 
junior15@m... Currently, I can get ExtractStream to work 
just fine. I can get the streams off of my Tivo, onto my Linux PC 
in m2v/m2a format or in tystream format. I can convert the m2a file 
to an m1a file or to a wav file. That's about as far as I get. If 
anybody would be willing to take some time to help me out, I'd 
greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Daniel
junior15@m...


--- In ExtractStream@y..., "junior15" <junior15@m...> wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody else has seen this error when trying to 
> convert mpeg2 video (m2v) to mpeg1 video (m1v) on a Linux PC
> 
> **ERROR: Could not read YUV4MPEG header: bad header magic!
> 
> Here is the command that I run:
> cat alias.m2v | mpeg2dec -o YUVh | mpeg2enc -s -r 24 -o alias.m1v
> 
> Also, when trying to use mplex to combine the audio and video 
files 
> (for one MPEG2 file) I get the following error:
> 
> [daniel@w... tivo]$ mplex -f 2 -m 2 -o Murder.mpeg2 Murder.m2[av]
> INFO: mplex version 2.0.2 ($Date: 2001/09/30 17:13:23 $)
> INFO: File Murder.m2a looks like an MPEG Audio stream.
> INFO: File Murder.m2v looks like an MPEG-1/2 Video stream.
> INFO: Found 1 video streams and 1 audio streams
> INFO: Selecting VCD output profile
> INFO: Scanning Video stream 0 for access units information.
> INFO: VIDEO STREAM: e0
> INFO: Frame width : 352
> INFO: Frame height : 480
> INFO: Aspect ratio : 1:0.6735
> INFO: Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
> INFO: Bit rate : 1470000 bits/sec
> INFO: Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
> INFO: CSPF : 0
> INFO: Scanning Audio stream for access units information.
> INFO: AUDIO STREAM:
> INFO: Audio version : 1.0
> INFO: Layer : 3
> INFO: CRC checksums : no
> INFO: Bit rate : 24576 bytes/sec (192 kbit/sec)
> INFO: Frequency : 32000 Hz
> INFO: Mode : 0 stereo
> INFO: Mode extension : 0
> INFO: Copyright bit : 0 no copyright
> INFO: Original/Copy : 0 copy
> INFO: Emphasis : 0 none
> INFO: SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
> INFO: rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 1701600
> INFO: Setting best-guess data rate.
> INFO: Sectors = 16 Video delay = 15923 Audio delay = 15923
> INFO: New sequence commences...
> INFO: Video e0: buf= 47104 frame=000000 sector=00000000
> INFO: Audio c0: buf= 4096 frame=000000 sector=00000000
> INFO: Padding : sector=00000000
> ++ WARN: Stream e0: Frame data under-run SCR=288609 DTS=288009 
(data 
> will arrive
> too late to be useful)!
> ++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 34053 frame=000081 sector=00000216
> ++ WARN: Audio c0: buf= 2805 frame=000076 sector=00000029
> ++ WARN: Padding : sector=00000013
> 
> {snipped a lot of the same thing}
> 
> ++ WARN: Stream e0: Frame data under-run SCR=3287160 DTS=3285003 
> (data will arri
> ve too late to be useful)!
> ++ WARN: Video e0: buf= 44799 frame=001078 sector=00002878
> ++ WARN: Audio c0: buf= 2076 frame=001002 sector=00000380
> ++ WARN: Padding : sector=00000013
> **ERROR: Too many frame drops -exiting
> 
> 
> Here is the command that I'm running: 
> mplex -f 2 -m 2 -o Murder.mpeg2 Murder.m2[av]
> 
> If anybody here has seen these errors and can help me figure them 
> out, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> junior15@m...