[MEncoder-users] creating movies from jpegs

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/15/05, Jesse Corrington <corrington_j at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ok, this is what im doing now, i am no longer creating an mpeg4 video, and
> am instead doing this.
> 
> "C:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder.exe" mf://*.jpg -mf type=jpg -ovc lavc
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=15:vbitrate=1600:vpass=2 -nosound -o
> corrppmovie.mpeg
> 
> however, the quality is still low.

Try to play with the options listed here: 
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-libavcodec.html#menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-lavc-encoding-options
Note that some of them are MPEG4-specific, so some will don't make a
difference, but that should help you out to get a better quality.

Note also that MPEG1 is a very shitty codec by today's standards. 
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