[MEncoder-users] Producing .mp4 files?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

First of all, please do not top post. It's really annoying.
Bottom-posting, or rather, inline posting is preferred here. The
reason can be found here:
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On 1/11/07, Stephen Norum <snorum at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> The resulting avi is also successfully converted to mp4 following the
> instructions from the website.  Any ideas why 4x4mv does not work and
> what direct_pred=3 is?

This is a leftover of old option names which have been renamed some weeks ago.

4x4mv  =>  partitions=all
direct_pred=3  =>  direct_pred=auto

Here's the patch I just committed, that has the correct option names:

Index: DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
===================================================================
--- DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml      (revision 21866)
+++ DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml      (working copy)
@@ -4273,7 +4273,7 @@

   <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -o /dev/null -ss 32 -ovc x264 \
  -x264encopts pass=1:turbo:bitrate=900:bframes=1:\
-me=umh:4x4mv:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=3:keyint=300 \
+me=umh:partitions=all:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=auto:keyint=300
\
  -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=-10:-1,harddup \
  -oac faac -faacopts br=192:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 -srate 48000 \
  -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
@@ -4290,7 +4290,7 @@

   <screen>mencoder dvd://1 <emphasis role="bold">-o
narnia.avi</emphasis> -ss 32 -ovc x264 \
  -x264encopts <emphasis
role="bold">pass=2</emphasis>:turbo:bitrate=900:frameref=5:bframes=1:\
-me=umh:4x4mv:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=3:keyint=300 \
+me=umh:partitions=all:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=auto:keyint=300
\
  -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=-10:-1,harddup \
  -oac faac -faacopts br=192:mpeg=4:object=1 -channels 2 -srate 48000 \
  -ofps 24000/1001</screen>

Guillaume