[MEncoder-users] Problems with a xvcd

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Tuesday 23 October 2007 08:54:14 James Hastings-Trew ha scritto:
> Lautaro Carranza wrote:
> > Hi all, I encode a movie mencoder follow comand:
> >
> > $ mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd
> > -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts
> > vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=15:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_minrate=60
> >0:vbitrate=2500:vrc_maxrate=2500:acodec=mp2:abitrate=192 -ofps 25
> > -o /home/laut/ripeos/fileoutput.mpg
> > /home/laut/ripeos/fileinput.avi -sub /home/laut/ripeos/file.srt
> >
> >
> > MEncoder dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4,
> > Stepping: 1) CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0
> > SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> > success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x2a596000
> > AVI file format detected.
> > VIDEO:  [DX50]  544x400  24bpp  25.000 fps  3375.7 kbps (412.1
> > kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x30355844  size:544x400 
> > fps:25.00  ftime:=0.0400

> > The file output.mpg is ok in my computer, but when I put in the
> > dvdplayer Sony the image is with distortion in horizontal. And
> > the subtitler seem incomplete
>
> You'll need to specify the correct scale for whatever the heck xvcd
> is - I'm betting money it's not 544x400.
>

indeed. In my experience only 240, 288, 480 and 576 vertical 
resolutions are played correctly by *vd players, while they seem
to tolerate any X dimension multiple of 16.
-vf scale=-10:480,expand=720:480 should fix your problem