[MEncoder-users] Fwd: mencoder burns in subtitles instead of ripping them to file

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 05:50:53PM +0100, Artem Meshbeyn wrote:
> OOPS! Thunderbird attached the wrong file first, sorry... I hope, it
> doesn't get posted...
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've written a script to rip DVDs with mencoder years ago and haven't
> used it anymore for 2-3 years until now. Now it's burning the subtitles
> into the video file instead of ripping them to .idx/.sub files. I'm
> guessing, the parameter syntax has changed, but I couldn't find anything
> on the web or find help on IRC/in the manual.

No it hasn't.
Are you sure about the instead?
-vobsubout disables subtitle rendering, however you use that only for
the first pass.
So you still need -nosub for the second one to disable them there.
And yes, that part is new. And it wasn't _really_ intentional but
laziness caused it being stuck at that state.

> PS. I know, the parameters I use are sub-optimal, but I don't know much
> about codecs and mplayer's parameters (even after "RTFMing" a lot) and
> just copied it from somewhere. (If someone could suggest another
> parameter string, for faster encoding with pretty much the same quality,
> I would be very thankful, but that's another issue ;))

For x264 use the presets exclusively, don't use any special
tricks/options.
When file size doesn't matter that much encode one-pass with crf for a
kind of "constant quality" mode instead of doing a two-pass bitrate
encode.