[MPlayer-users] mencoder mpeg1 encoding

[Giacomo Comes]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Guido Reimer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I like to encode a DVD to a very smal mpg movie. I like to watch this movie
> via livestreaming on my pocket pc device. 
> I am using PocketTV to do that and I am using the next command to do my
> work. The resulting Movie is working very nice,
> but only with mplayer or on windows with the windows media player. All is
> locking very fine, but on PocketTV it does not work. I got a bitrate about
> 2100 kb/s! That’s not true and the movie is running very slow about 1 or 2
> Frames per second and this pictures are defect.
> 
> I have seen in windows media player, that the decoder can not read the kb/s
> from the movie. Is it possible that the mpeg fileinformations are not
> correct? Is there an error in my way of encoding?

The command looks correct. In order to show the kb/s use vbitrate=400.
No idea why the PocketTV is not working. I don't know the device.

Giacomo

> 
> 
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 -aid 129 -noskip -vf
> scale=320:240 -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=400000:vrc_minrate=100:vrc_maxrate=500:vrc_buf_si
> ze=300:vpass=1 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=96 -o startrek.mpg &&
> 
> mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 -aid 129 -noskip -vf
> scale=320:240 -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=400000:vrc_minrate=100:vrc_maxrate=500:vrc_buf_si
> ze=300:vpass=2 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=96 -o startrek.mpg