[MPlayer-users] Question about mencode

[David Philippi]

Hi

I've just come to use mencode and I'm facing a few problems:

1. Is it possible to use the crop filter to cut away at the right side / 
bottom? I've found no way to do this - cutting the left / top works well.

2. Is it possible to pass -- options to lame? I've tried -lameopts 
someopts:rescale 24 without success - but I'd  like to change the 48kHz 
audio into 24kHz very much.

3. Is there a deinterlacing filter available yet? Combined with a cutting 
from every side this would make my life much easier.

4. Is there a way to normalize the audio? I could probably extract the audio, 
pass it through sox and then again into mencode somehow but I'd still need 
something to scan for the value to normalize to.

Besides those problems MPlayer and mencoder are extremly usefull tools for 
anyone how uses a DVB card. I've not found a Windows software yet which 
would allow me to reencode the MPEG 2 streams as fast as mencode (which 
isn't even compiled by me yet) and more importantly ignores errors as good 
as mencode.

Bye David