[MEncoder-users] [SOLVED] Green boxes on non-computer DVD player

[Giacomo Comes]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 03:36:58AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> >does it work with vstrict >= 0 ? (this is absolutely required anyway for 
> >anything
> >standards compliant)
> >
> Thank you so much for that one.
> 
> Indeed, setting vstrict=1 made a stream which my DVD player plays 
> perfectly. I've already sent an e-mail to the webmaster of the 
> mplayer.hu site suggesting to update their page about DVD-compliant MPEG.
> 
> Just for the record, the exact line which WORKS well on my MEncoder 
> 1.0rc1-3.2.2 is
> 
> mencoder-1.0 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf 
> scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000,volume=-12 
> -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vstrict=1:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 
> -ofps 25 -o "out.mpg" "in.avi"
> 
> So thanks again,
>    Eli

Just curious. Have you tryed vstrict=0?
It was the default up to pre7 and in the past
there were no complains about green boxes that I remember.

Giacomo