[MPlayer-users] encoding questions

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 04 February 2004 at 04:45, Amadeus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have stumbled upon some problems I can't figure out. Can anyone help?
> 
> My goal is to make a 700MB mpeg4 rip from a DVD. This is the scale and
> crop options I use
> -vop scale=XXX:YYY,crop=702:572:10:2 -sws 4\
> 
> * For what values of XXX,YYY do I get the best quality pr. byte when I
>   have a fixed file size to 700MB?

It depends on the length of the video. I'd say 640:368 for a 90 minute
16:9 video usually looks good.

> * Does it make any difference if I make more than two vpass encodings?

You can't do more than two-pass encoding.

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