[MEncoder-users] What's wrong with this script (encoding x264 in mkv-container)

[Stjepan Brbot]

Robert Ramiega wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:19:01AM +0100, Stjepan Brbot wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:10 +0100, Al Bogner wrote:
>>     
>>> If I replace *.mpg with 1 existing filename, the script works. What do I have 
>>> to do to encode a few mpg-files to 1 mkv-file? Any improvement of the options 
>>>       
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>   
>> for i in *.mpg; do
>>
>>  #1st pass
>>  mencoder $i -aspect 16/9 \
>>  -vf yadif=0,softskip,harddup -nosound \
>>  -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=3500:subq=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:turbo=1:threads=auto:pass=1 \
>>  -of rawvideo -o /dev/null
>>
>>  #2nd pass
>>  mencoder $i -aspect 16/9 \
>>  -vf yadif=0,softskip,harddup -nosound \
>>  -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=3500:subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=2 \
>>  -of rawvideo -o tmp.264
>>
>>  #audio pass
>>  mencoder $i -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard -ovc copy -o tmp.mp3
>>
>>  #MKV muxing
>>  mkvmerge -o $i.mkv tmp.264 tmp.mp3
>>     
>
>  Wouldn't this create separate mkv for each mpg file?
>
>   
Yes this will create separate mkv file for each combination of .264 and 
.mp3 files. Sorry, I haven't noticed that you needed only one mkv file. 
However, I don't know the syntax of mkvmerge app but can't this script 
be used in each iteration to append new created .264 and .mp3 to 
previously created mkv file?