[MEncoder-users] DVD compliant MPEG2 encoding

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:52:29PM +0300, Lauri Myllari wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:01:27PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:14:18AM +0300, Lauri Myllari wrote:
> > > > 1) me_range
> > > > 
> > > > The player I use for testing is a Pioneer DV-545 and it's
> > > > apparently quite strict about standard compliance. After adding
> > > > "me_range=127" to lavcopts the player stopped skipping/crashing on
> > > > scenes with fast motion.
> > 
> > use cvs!!!
> 
> % mencoder -v
> MEncoder dev-CVS-050905-13:39-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> 
> (Now updated to dev-CVS-050910-12:13-3.4.5 and got the same result)
> 
> [snip]
> > > > Should this be noted in the encoding-guide.txt section about DVD
> > > > constraints?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > 
> > probably not but it wont hurt OTOH, this is a limit of MPEG-2 not dvd,
> > and lavc will take care of it by default
> 
> Without me_range=128 I get a bad stream.

this is caused by the silly default value of vstrict in ve_lavc.c someone
needs to drink some cola and reverse that ...

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Michael