streaming/converting avi to mpeg ts

[khilliard]

I've ripped a DVD to h.264 (using mencoder), stored in an AVI container. I want to stream this to a file in a mpeg ts output format (so I can eventually stream to an Amino STB). I tried using:

vlc -vvv file.avi --sout '#standard{access=file,mux=ts,dst=file.ts}"

The result when played via vlc: sound without any video. Do I need to transcode the video to mpeg2 as well? I hope not as transcoding takes so long. Any help would be appreciated as I am a newbie.

thx