[MPlayer-users] mencoder: encoding a B&W movie

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 21 October 2002, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> First pass:
> mencoder TITLE01-ANGLE1.VOB -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vpass=1:vbitrate=800:keyint=48 -ofps 23.976 -npp lb
> -ss 2:00 -endpos 0:30 -vop scale -zoom -xy 640 -o movie.avi
> 
> The bitrate is very low. At that bitrate I would scale to something
> like 360x270 for 4:3 aspect ratio or 360x153 for 2.35:1.

I'd make it 384x288 and 384x160 (rounded to 16).

> Dvds average about 5 mb/s for 720x480. Even though the mpeg4
> you're using with mencoder does better compression than the
> mpeg2 on the dvd, it's still not going to work too well at 800
> kbits.

True.

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