[MPlayer-users] standalone DVD-player that plays mencoded AVIs

[Matthias Czapla]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:27:25PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:07:27PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > 
> > Im not too deep into the topic of encoding, I usually just do something like
> > mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=xxx:vpass=1
> > -vop scale=x:y,crop=x:y:a:b inputfile
> 
> At the very least you should replace vhq with mbd=2 and add trell.
> Neither uses any advanced mpeg4 features; they just cause lavc to make
> smarter decisions when encoding, at the expense of speed, so you
> always end up with better quality and don't hurt compatibility.

Thanks for the tip. Guess I should upgrade. Still using 0.91, which doesnt
know about "mbd" :)

Regards
Matthias