[MEncoder-users] Please help to improve syntax

[Al Bogner]

I want to create a x264-file in a mkv-container from a XSVCD, which source was 
a VHS-PAL-Video originally.

I ripped the xsvcd with this command:
mplayer -dumpstream vcd://2


Then I extracted the audio to mp3 with vbr. Is vbr ok or should it be cbr? I 
wonder, why smplayer doesn't play the sound of the merged result, while 
mplayer, xine and others do:

mencoder stream.dump -of rawaudio -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=standard -ovc 
copy -o movie.mp3 &


I want to deinterlace, denoise and sharpen the source. Would you change the 
options?

mencoder stream.dump -ovc x264 -aspect 4/3 -x264encopts 
qp=30:threads=auto:pass=1 -vf 
yadif=0,softskip,harddup,hqdn3d,unsharp=l:5x5:0.5 -nosound -of rawvideo -o 
/dev/null

mencoder stream.dump -ovc x264 -aspect 4/3 -x264encopts 
qp=30:threads=auto:pass=2 -vf 
yadif=0,softskip,harddup,hqdn3d,unsharp=l:5x5:0.5 -nosound -of rawvideo -o 
movie.264


At the end I merged the files:
mkvmerge -o movie.mkv movie.264  movie.mp3


Al