[MEncoder-users] mencoder and dvdauthor

[Peter Hartshorn]

This is what I do:

two pass encoding, mpeg2 video, ac3 audio, mpeg container

	mencoder -ovc frameno -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3:abitrate=448 rip.avi -o 
frameno.avi
	mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vpass=1:vcodec=mpeg2video... -of mpeg 
rip.avi -o pass1.mpg
	mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vpass=2:vcodec=mpeg2video... -of mpeg 
rip.avi -o pass2.mpg

dump the video from the second pass file with -dumpvideo
	mplayer pass2.mpg -dumpvideo -dumpfile final.m2v

dump the ac3 audio from frameno.avi with -dumpaudio
	mplayer frameno.avi -dumpaudio -dumpfile final.ac3

use mplex to join the two streams together with "-f 8"
	mplex -f 8 -o final.vob final.ac3 final.m2v

Hope that helps