[MEncoder-users] Cropping fails on DVD

[Jon Cosby]

I'm backing up some DVDs. I'm using a different program to rip them. I did a
test run on one chapter and got great results, although I got wide screen
when I intended to get full screen. I then did the entire title,

Pass 1:
mencoder *.vob -vf crop=704:352:8:62,scale=640:480 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
bvhq=1:chroma_opt:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=658:pass=1:threads=2 -oac copy -o
/dev/null

Pass 2:
mencoder *.vob -vf crop=704:352:8:62,scale=640:480 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
bvhq=1:chroma_opt:quant_type=mpeg:bitrate=658:pass=2:threads=2 -alang en
-oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr:vol=6 -o chinatown.avi

This time, the cropping failed. Frustrating, as it took a few hours to
finish the transcoding. Does it usually take this long to transcode a DVD,
and why would the cropping fail on the full run? It even failed on the test
chapter the second time around.



Jon Cosby