[MPlayer-users] Tools for mpeg* to DVD

[rcooley]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:06:39 +0100
Danny Bogaards <danny at boware.nl> wrote:

> When I actually want to make a dvd, I'll put all avi's in one dir and
> run a script which makes all those avi's to mpg's suitable for burning
> to DVD. I mostly go to sleep when I start the script ;-)
> 
> The main work is done with transcode:
> transcode -V -y mpeg2enc,mp2enc -E 48000 -F8 -w 8000 -b 128
> -export_asr 2 -i input.avi -o output mplex -f 8 -o output.mpg
> output.mpa output.m2v

First off, why not use ffmpeg's mpeg2 codec for encoding.  Results just
as good as mpeg2enc, but many many times faster.

I would also recomend toolame instead of mp2enc...  Even the mjpeg-tools
authors recomend using it instead.
 
> When there is a slight AV desync, I re-run the mplex command with:
> "-O -100" appended to it, to correct -100ms desync. If I encounter
> desync, I never have more desync then +100mS ..... -100mS

I would suggest tcmplex over mplex.