[MPlayer-users] what am i doing wrong?

[Horváth István]

> I'd like to encode a dvd onto a 700 mb cd. So, I give mencoder the
> following:
>
> mencoder -dvd 1 -pp 0x20000 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
>
> After that, mencoder tells me, that 1056 Kb/s is the appropriate bitrate
> for a 700 mb cd. So I
>
> mencoder -dvd 1 -pp 0x20000 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=1056:vhq:vpass 1
>
> And after that, the same parameters except for vpass 2. After 8 hours of
> encoding, I get a 550 mb file with poor quality. Any ideas? pp is needed
> because of deinterlacing, without that, the displayed image is bad.
i get the same, if i encoded it with ffmpeg! so try it with odivx:
mecoder .... -ovc divx4 -divx4opts br=1056:q=5 ...
when i used this, i get very great quality!!

best regards