[MEncoder-users] mencoder starter needs help

[James Thomas Snell]

You need to do something with the video.. I wouldn't expect "raw" to be a
fun direction to take things for your video codec. Probably will use a few
hundred gigs/hr of video.

Try running

mencoder -ovc help

to get a list of video codecs you can try.


I'd suggest trying something like:

mencoder C:\goat.mpg -o goat.avi -of avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -oac copy

Similarly, you can run "mencoder -oac help" to get a list of audio codecs to
try rather than "copy", though I'm going to guess "copy" will be fine for
now. At some point you may want to use "lame".

This is a pretty basic answer for you, but your question is also pretty
basic. You should be able to find some great example usage in the
documentation or if you google for it.

Does that answer your question sufficiently?




mencoder C:\goat.mpg -o goat.avi -of avi -ovc raw -oac copy


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:36 AM, B K <b.kot at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am a beginner who has a movie file taken from television in ac3 audio
> format and mpeg2 video format.
>
> Mplayer can play the video with no hassles. Although Windows media player
> will not play the audio, which is why I would like to encode this file into
> a format that can be played anywhere no matter which codecs are present.
>
> I am assuming the file will be big as this will lose all forms of
> compression, but are there any other disadvantages ?
>
> I am not familiar with mencoder to even know where to start but I have
> given it a go.  I tried the following code:
>
> mencoder C:\goat.mpg -o goat.avi -of avi -ovc raw -oac copy
>
> The output was not what I expected. The video would hardly move, and the
> sound was all distorted with plenty of jitter.
>
> Can you help me ? My main goal is to achieve the same quality but have it
> so I can play on any computer, especially windows.
>
> Thank you, and sorry for previous post.
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