[MEncoder-users] high quality avi; correct syntax

[ronnie escobedo]

Thanks for the tip on -oac pcm. The software will support it.

Deinterlacing - well this what I suspected but I am really not very 
knowledgeable in the relm of video and encoding.

I appreciate your time!



thanks

::ronnie :: :

>You get fairly good quality that way, however, if you have the disc space 
>and your editing software supports it you may want to do mencoder -oac pcm 
>instead of mp3lame since PCM is higher quality than mp3. Also, the 
>distortion you are talking about is probably interlacing in the video. 
>There is more info about that in the docs, I can't give much more of an 
>explanation than that adding -vf pp=fd works for me when deinterlacing. 
>Note that deinterlacing reduces the quality of the video in some ways. I 
>can't really give much more of an explanation. Hope that helped.
>
> >>> "ronnie escobedo" <tenminuteslater at hotmail.com> 12/09/04 01:14PM >>>
>greetings ,
>
>I am new to encoding video. I however have been using Mplayer for about 2
>years  now.
>
>My problem:
>
>I am ripping DVD video encoding it to an avi for editting in a windows
>platform uisng Sony's Movie Studio.
>
>I ran into several roadblocks because the syntax I originally started using
>would create avi files that would work in any media player linux or windows
>but when placed in Movie Studio for editting no audio was present.
>the syntax used:
>mencoder -dvd-device /dev/hda dvd://1 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=2:vhq:v4mv:trell:autoaspect -chapter 1-1 -o 01.avi
>
>I experimented with several different settings and finally found a solution
>that works for me.
>workaround:
>mencoder -dvd-device /dev/hda dvd://1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts
>br=256:cbr:mode=3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
>vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=2:vhq:v4mv:trell:autoaspect -ofps 29.97 -vf
>crop=692:464:14:8 -noskip -chapter 1-1 -o 01.avi
>
>Question:
>1. Is  this the best method for getting the hishest or best quality
>video/audio?
>
>My terminology is not the best and I am quickly playing catch up. An issue 
>I
>am currently experiening after encoding the avi files is that anytime there
>is movement such as hand movement or walking there seems to be some type of
>distortionaround the movement. This distortion only happens with movements
>and other than this the video quality is great.
>Can someone please explain what this is and how I may fix it?
>
>::ronnie :: :
>
>
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