[MPlayer-users] crackling sound on a 3 pass divx

[christopher j bottaro]

hello,
i made a 3 pass divx encoding of my true lies dvd.  here are the commands i 
used:

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=96:vol=9 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi 
-ofps 23.976 -dvd 1
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$vbitrate:vpass=1 -vop eq,scale  -aspect 16:9 -dvd 
1 -zoom -xy 640 -o /dev/null -ofps 23.976
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$vbitrate:vpass=2 -vop eq,scale -aspect 16:9 -dvd 1  
-zoom -xy 640 -o movie.avi -ofps 23.976

it only crackles when the sound gets loud.  like an explosion, loud music, or 
a plane landing.  raising the audio bitrate to 128 doesn't help at all.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  thanks,
-- christopher