[MEncoder-users] Ipod Video (or missing aac encoding in lavc)

[Mark Himsley]

It's embarrassing that I sent this email almost 4 weeks ago but it appears it was stuck in a queue.

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
> On Sunday 08 July 2007 21:53, Mark Himsley wrote:
> > On 8 July 2007 17:11:50 +0200 Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> > > Would you care to share the command line? since I've had no success yet
> > > it would be appreciated...
> >
> > I regularly make podcasts using the following (the sourse files are 16:9
> > PAL off-air digital recordings, so similar to PAL DVDs)
> 
> Why don't you use faac for AAC encoding? I use it all the time here without a 
> problem..
> 
> -faac -faacopts mpeg=4:object=2:br=140

I don't know. I worked out how to use lavc and it worked for me.
To turn the question around, why should I use faac?

Actually, should I use a different video codec too?

 
> > mencoder -v \
> >  "$i" \
> >  -o "$d" \
> >  -aspect 1050:576 \
> >  -ofps 25.00 \
> >  -noskip \
> >  -mc 0 \
> >  -vfm ffmpeg \
> >  -vf kerndeint=18:0:0:1:0,crop=648:568:36:4,scale=320:192,harddup \
> >  -ovc lavc \
> >  -oac lavc \
> >  -lavcopts
> > vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=768:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vma
> >x_b_frames=0:cmp=3:subcmp=3:autoaspect:aglobal=1:acodec=aac:abitrate=128 \
> >  -of lavf \
> >  -lavfopts format=mp4:i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames

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Mark Himsley