[MEncoder-users] handling stupid mpeg-4 decoder (ffmpeg works but mencoder doesn't)

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 19 October 2008, Se Heon Ryu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Reimar Döffinger
>
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 06:33:01PM +0900, Se Heon Ryu wrote:
> >> otoh xvid with ffmpeg with default options makes no block
> >> artifacts and no p frame artifacts on mobile
> >
> > Can't help you with xvid, but if you are encoding to a certain
> > bitrate you should use two-pass encoding.
> > Also for lavc's MPEG-4 encoder you could try e.g. idct=14
>
> Thanks! Specifying idct made video better.

Try the different xvid profiles:

-xvidencopts profile=sp2

sp2, sp3, dxnhandheld, dxnportntscp, dxnportpal might be good candidates

Out of interest, what mobile phone is it?