[MPlayer-users] Re: 2 pass divx encoding from .VOB/dvd - Targeted filesize (bitrate) ends up way way wrong

[Rémi Guyomarch]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:01:04PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:34:46PM +0200, Øyvind Stegard wrote:

[...libavcodec need vqmin=2...]

> > Finally, some more details:
> > The movie is 720x576 PAL 25fps, about two hours long. I also got 
> > indications (from a reply to a previous post I sent), that the movie 
> > probably was a field based interlaced stream. It was ripped using Smart 
> > Ripper on a windows box, and the .vob file (concatenated all vobs to 
> > one) is about 6GIGs, and contains video, two ac3 streams (one 2.0 and 
> > one 5.1), and some subtitle stuff.
> 
> You might need -ofps 50 or something. Read the archives. Broken
> interlacing will definitely have a huge negative impact on
> quality/bitrate.

You don't need anything to let mencoder recognize field-based
interlaced streams. Arpi fixed it a few weeks ago.

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Rémi