[MPlayer-users] Suitable for authoring a dvd

[Nico Sabbi]

RC wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:04:49 -0500
>Aaron Peterson <aaron at alpete.com> wrote:
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>>how I could instead use
>>mplayer to create mpeg files suitable for running through dvdauthor
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>This has been discussed over and over again.  Search the mailing list
>archives.
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>>what good options might I have for creating video files of some type
>>of lossless format without obnoxious file size?
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>If you want it lossless, it's got to be incredibly large.  Use huffyuv
>to save up to 50% of the space, but don't expect to see any way to get
>much more space savings and still being lossless.
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ffv1 with cabac (maybe now it's range coder) and a wide context
compresses much better than huffyuv, but it' slow (24 fps on my 2.4 p4)