[MEncoder-users] mkv to hard sub avi to m4v command line options and sync problems

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:17:06AM -0600, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> v4r4n wrote:
> >$> mencoder -oac copy -ovc raw -sub subtitles.srt -sub-bg-alpha 255 -utf8 -o
> >output.srt.avi input.avi
> >
> >to make a large raw with baked subtitles, then Handbrake to re-encode that
> >into an iPod .m4v file.  This works well enough, but the original visual
> >artifacts that I saw in the raw are still there.
> I'm not sure how you could expect it to be otherwise. That command
> line leads me to believe the artifacts are part of the original .mkv
> file, since raw would not add any artifacts of it's own.

Wrong, it will introduce decoding errors if you do not use -noskip.