[MPlayer-users] Why is it "Skipping frame!"s?

[Matthias Czapla]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:51:05AM +0100, Amadeus wrote:
> > > for i in 1 2; do
> > >         nice -19 mencoder -aid 128 -oac pcm -ovc lavc \
> > > 	-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=509:vpass=$i \
> > > 	-sws 2 -vf crop=672:316:24:130,scale=544:240 \
> > > 	-dvd-device some_image.bin dvd://1
> > > done
> 
> Pretty neat loop trick there=)

Thanks but this is _nothing_ in the face of MPlayer :)

> You can save a lot of time by dumping the first pass to /dev/null.
> This way you won't have to write the pass1 encoding to the harddisc, which is
> a slow process.

Good idea, will do this in the future.

> Not tested, but this just might work:
> 
> for i in 1 2; do
> for j in /dev/null filename.avi; do
>          nice -19 mencoder -aid 128 -oac pcm -ovc lavc \
>      -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=509:vpass=$i \
>      -sws 2 -vf crop=672:316:24:130,scale=544:240 \
>      -dvd-device some_image.bin dvd://1
>      -o $j
>  done
> done

I cant imagine how this could save time ;)

Regards
Matthias