[MEncoder-users] many mencoder questions from a newbie

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Janos Szamosfalvi <szamosj <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> mencoder Title4.mpg -ss 4 -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -o /dev/null -ofps
> 30000/1001 -vf crop=720:464:0:8,scale=720:432,harddup -ovc x264 -x264encopts
> turbo:pass=1:bitrate=1500:subq=4:frameref=2:8x8dct:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:
> weight_b:keyint=30:vbv_maxrate=1600:threads=auto:psnr:ssim
> -srate 44100 -af format=s16le -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128

MEncoder has some unique features but unfortunately is not an actively
maintained application.
Since you do not use any of the mentioned features, I strongly recommend you use
FFmpeg which is actively maintained:
http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Carl Eugen