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

[James Hastings-Trew]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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.
Are you saying that it will skip decoding frames, not just skip storing 
them?