[MPlayer-users] insane compulsive maniacal mencoder settings

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:41:10PM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> > My first recommendation would be to ignore the audio to begin with
> > (just use -oac copy so there's some audio to sync with) and transcode
> > it to ogg and make an ogm file later on. That way you can get high
> > quality audio at only about 64-72 kbit/sec average, leaving plenty of
> > room for video.
> 
> I like ogg too.  Sometimes though, ogg at bitrates lower than about 100
> kbps on 48000 Hz sndtracks sounds bad to me, especially on headphones. 
> The stereo 'separation' seems over 'enhanced' like it's trying to
> compensate for the low bitrate... it's a very annoying sound.  So the
> advantage over mp3 is kinda nullified at superlow bitrates.  It seems
> better with 44100 Hz though.  And mplayer's seeking on ogm files bugs
> me. :)

Yes the seeking is horrible. It should be fixed at some point though.
As for samplerate, I always resample to 44100 because I hate wasting
tons of cpu time downsampling every time I play the file. I should
have mentioned that, since low bitrates won't work really well at
48000...

Rich