[MEncoder-users] Video bitrate 104857 kbps, video GOP is too long.

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:07:44PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
> That's what TMPGenc DVD Author reports when I try to add the file to a 
> new project.
> 
> mencoder tv.avi -fps 30000/1001 -ofps 30000/1001 -of mpeg -oac lavc -ovc 
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=7000:keyint=15 -vf 
> harddup,hqdn3d,pp=md,scale=720:480 -mc 0 -o tvout.mpg
> 
> It's a 512x384 source file (odd size, I know), encoded with the above 
> command line.  I can link to a short (1 second) encoded clip using those 
> same parameters, if that would help.
> 
> Didn't seem to affect the operation of the disc at all, I just found it 
> odd, and confusing.

This is unrelated to your problem, but putting harddup anywhere but
the _end_ of the filter chain is almost always a bad idea. It won't
hurt here, except for making encoding slower and perhaps making hqdn3d
less effective.

Rich