[MEncoder-users] Generating Divx/MPEG4 files from ATSC .ts files

[Philip Prindeville]

RC wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:28:04 -0700
>Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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>>Ok, I reencoded the file in a single pass with vqscale=2, and it went
>>from:
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>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6819032976 Nov 12 20:59 IdahoEdens.7.ts
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>>to:
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>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12250961610 Nov 24 02:58 IdahoEdens.avi
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>>Yow.  What's going on?
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>What do you mean "what's going on"?  You selected to re-encode the video
>with the highest possible quality (vqscale=2), without optimizations
>which would reduce the bitrate needed (eg.  mbd=2:trell) and that's
>what you got.  You're also using post-processing before encoding, which
>is introducing lots of fairly random noise, changing colors, etc, which
>eats up more bits as well.
>
>Mencoder does exactly what you tell it to do, even when it doesn't make
>much sense.
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Ok, so perhaps someone could spell out to me what I should be using as the
command line (which would also make it searchable and a useful reference in
the list archives).

Thanks.

-Philip