[MEncoder-users] Ripping dvd to mp4

[Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)]

On Monday 24 March 2008 19:38, Erik Slagter wrote:
> Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2008 19:27, Erik Slagter wrote:
> >> Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
> >> I checked it out, it looks like it's a bit too user-friendly for me.
> >
> > lol, people complain all the time that encoding deals with a lot of
> > parameters and it's hard to do thus it's not user friendly and you come
> > here and complain that it is too user friendly... nice one
>
> Ehmm, sorry, but I like things to go automatically and unattended.
>
> So I am actually not looking for a complete script but just (rough)
> combinations of applications/options to achieve what I want.

and this shows that you don't understand how h264enc works, or at least didn't 
get the time to investigate... h264enc supports batch encoding, you can't 
automate more than that...

>
> >> Also I don't think it will actually hard-render subtitles because it
> >> only uses mencoder for the video and mencoder cannot hard-render
> >> subtitles last time I checked. That's why I use mplayer (with yuv4mpeg
> >> output).
> >
> > mencoder can very well hardcode the subtitles into the movie. what are
> > you talking about??
>
> The last time I checked, like I said. Some of the guru's on the
> ffmpeg-devel list claimed this. Probably I was talking about hard-coding
> the subtitles of a DVD(-stream). I am pretty sure mencoder cannot do
> that. I have no interest in .sub, .srt, .vobsub, .ass etc. subtitles.
> What I want is simply DVD -> mp4 with one track of subtitles hardcoded

and how are you going to insert those subtitles into the mp4 container if not 
first dumping them to vobsub format and then importing this file into the mp4 
container... Do you actually understand what hardcoding of subtitles means? 
it means it burns them directly into the movie so every time you watch it, 
you get to see the subtitles and there's no way to get rid of them. That's 
hardcoding. What you're talking about is called embedding subtitles into a 
container. This can be very well done with MP4Box but first you have to dump 
the subtitles to vobsub files and after the encoding is done you import them 
into the mp4 file on a separate track, so you'll have a video track, an audio 
track and a subtitles track... this is called embedded subtitles, not 
hardcoded

> in them (without the use intermediate seperate subtitle files). I
> believe mencoder cannot do that.
>
> I can't use mencoder anyway because although it can generate mp4 files
> now (using lavf), it cannot handle b-frames at all :-(

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