[MPlayer-users] Creating a letterbox (PAL) VCD

[Colin Rosenthal]

We have some windows media files in widescreen format (392x220 pixels). 
We would
like to encode them to pal-vcd mpegs in letterbox format. Our 
first-attempt set of
mencoder parameters for this is:

mencoder -oac twolame -twolameopts br=224 -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts 
format=xvcd -vf \
    scale=352:198,expand=352:288:0:45,harddup -srate 44100 -af 
lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
    vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=15:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1150:\
vbitrate=1150:vrc_maxrate=1150:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224:aspect=4/3 -ofps 
25  \
    -o 392x220.mpeg 392x220.wmv

Does this look reasonable or can anyone suggest possible improvements? 
(Also, how
would you do the same in ffmpeg and would you expect the results to be 
better/worse/the same?)

thanks in advance,
Colin Rosenthal

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