[MEncoder-users] Video Quality

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 04:21, Larry wrote:

> /usr/local/bin/mencoder  tv://$1 -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480: \
> forceaudio:forcechan=2:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable -oac mp3lame \
> -ovc lavc -endpos $2 -o $3 
> 
> Is there anything I can do to increase the quality? I've tried several
> codecs with not much difference.

You leave the default settings for lavc in place, which means 800kbit/s
bitrate. Increase this a bit with -lavcopts, or use -lavcopts vqscale=2.
See the manual