[MEncoder-users] Video for YouTube, getting extremely low quality movies

Elia Christopher eliared at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 25 15:06:06 CET 2008



Apple7777 <applepro7777 at gmail.com> wrote: Reimar Döffinger  stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:01:35PM +0000, Apple7777 wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me how to make high quality 30fps > 15fps with mencoder?
> > 
> > No. The naive way should work fine. If it doesn't that's because 15fps
> > is shit, not because you're doing it wrong. Perhaps Adobe Premiere is
> > lying about the 15fps, either using some VFR thing or who-knows-what..
> 
> It might just be blurring things (which also reduces bitrate
> requirements) or if it is used to do the encoding it might be using the
> VP6 codec which while doing nothing against low bitrate sure will
> improve quality a lot.
> 
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger




>Actually, it was 15 fps, MPEG4. :) I don't know how does Premiere do >this, but
>it converts frame rate well. Other tools (like VirtualDub) change frame >rate
>much much much better that mencoder too. Mencoder is ok at the most part of
>sample movie (link above), but at 21-23 seconds it really looks ugly.


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Is your assesment of mencoder's framerate conversion based on that clip alone?
try it again with different clips.

provide the source to the problem clip if you want someone to attempt a better conversion or confirm these problems you've found

tripp

       
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