[MPlayer-users] Brightness decreases on every video frame in MPEG-2 encodes

[RC]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:40:48 +0100
Markus Kaiserswerth <mkaiserswerth at inetmx.de> wrote:

> mencoder movie.avi -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -
> 
> vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 - 
> lavcopts  
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=7000:vbitrate=5000:ke
> yin  t=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 -o movie.mpg

You aren't using any of the quality-improving options, so 5000 probably
isn't a high enough bitrate.  At least add mbd=2 and trell, and it
should look much better.