[MPlayer-users] Mencoder quality help

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:28:55AM -0700, joe user wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello, I have just tried to use mencoder to encode a
> DVD.  Here are the options I used:
> 
> mencoder -dvd-device ~/file.dvd -ovc xvid -dvd 1 -o
> ~/file.xvid -oac copy
> 
> It did a good job of compressing it, but the quality
> of the result was not acceptable, compared to the
> original dvd quality.  Can someone suggest a codec and
> options to get a high-quality copy of a dvd?

1, use libavcodec, not xvid, and 2, read DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt
for advice on encoding. The most important things are setting the
bitrate, using the "vhq" option, and cropping all black borders and
noise from the edges.

Rich