[MPlayer-users] VCD to movie file

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
> > > I have some VCDs that I want to convert to single movie files, I don't
> > > care what the format is, but I don't want to lose any more quality
> > > because the VCD video is already about as bad as I can stand.  I also
> > > want others to be able to play the movie from windows media player.
> > > 
> > > I was going for just copying the audio and video stream to filename.mpg
> > > with the following command:
> > > 
> > > mencoder vcd:// -of mpeg -oac copy -ovc copy -o filename.mpg
> > 
> > Use the following instead:
> > 
> > mplayer vcd:// -dumpfile vcd.mpg -dumpstream
> 
> This seems to cause Windows Media Player to generate the following
> helpful error message:
> 
> Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error.

Actually when you want best quality with Windows Media Player, you
really should consider reencoding. mencoder's postprocessing and video filters should allow
you to get a much better looking video than WMP will give you with a bad
quality file. I don't know much, but the filters you might want to look
at include pp, spp (only one of those, they must be first in the chain), hqdn3d (there seems to be some disagreement if this is good or bad) and probably others as well.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger