[MPlayer-users] MPEG4 Low-Motion Quality

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

James Board <jpboard2 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm transcoding MPEG-2 files into mpeg4 with mencoder.

Any reason why you don't use ffmpeg?

>  My 2-pass encoding command is:
> 
> mencoder INFILE -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null
> mencoder INFILE -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> codec=mpeg4:vbitrate=4000:mbd=2:trell:vpass=2 -oac copy -o OUTFILE

I am no encoding expert, but I believe the same options should be used for first
and second pass. And did you read the documentation? It should be good for
MPEG-4 encoding.

> The source material is also 4 mbits/sec.

Codec?

Carl Eugen