[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer oddities when playing DVD

[Tobias Diedrich]

gary ng wrote:

> 1. It seems that mplayer doesn't have navigation
> support and the DVD I have has lots of titles, I need
> to search till title 15 in order to find the movie.
> xine on the other hand supports full DVD menu
> navigation. Are there any plan to add this or may be I
> have missed something ?

Its planned for MPlayer G2.

> 2. The subtitle is very annoying. It seems like that
> some text have been displayed and quickly covered at
> the position of the subtitle making that area flashing
> all the time. I am not sure if the subtitle that is
> visible and readable to me is an image in the video
> stream or composed by mplayer and the font and size
> and color of it is exactly the same as I see in xine.
> And of course, I don't see that flashing background
> white text in xine. How should I fix this ?

Use -double (Enables doublebuffering) or use -vo xv or
one of the vidix vo's if available.

> Oh, I also tried to transcode using mencoder but the
> output quality is not very good even I specify mpeg4
> and a vbitrate of 1200k. Sometimes, I see visible
> patches in the scene like some highly compressed jpg
> or may be VCD image quality. How can I get a quality
> like that of the original stream without that size ?

You want to use multipass encoding and you probably also
want at least mbd=2:trell as additional lavcopts, e.g.:
mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -o output.avi -vf pp=hb/vb/dr,hqdn3d -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp2:vbitrate=1200:mbd=2:trell:vpass=1 input.avi
mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -o output.avi -vf pp=hb/vb/dr,hqdn3d -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp2:vbitrate=1200:mbd=2:trell:vpass=2 input.avi

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