[MPlayer-users] Re: Ther is a way to encode directly in ogm format?[mencoder]

[Michael Waters]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 23:18 +0200, Pere Castañer wrote:

> [first:Thanks for this great piece of software, I'm a lover of mplayer/mencoder!!!]
> 
> [Second: I've read the man, the documentation and docs of ogmtools and mplayer and I don't understand this (below)]
> 
> I use mencoder for ripping dvd to divx with libavcodec and vbr audio.
> 
> I use the three passes method:
> [An example]
> 
> Pass1
> -----
> mencoder -dvd 1 -alang es -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3:vol=10
> 
> [using cropdetect and calcbpp perl script for determine the crop and scale]
> 
> Pass2
> -----
> mencoder -dvd 1 -vop scale=640:272,crop=718:436:2:70 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=776:vhq:vqmin=2:vlelim=-4:vcelim=9:lumi_mask=0.05:dark_mask=0.01:vpass=2 -sws 2 -oac copy -o /dev/null 
> 
> Pass3
> -----
> mencoder -dvd 1 -vop scale=640:272,crop=718:436:2:70 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=776:vhq:vqmin=2:vlelim=-4:vcelim=9:lumi_mask=0.05:dark_mask=0.01:vpass=2 -sws 2 -oac copy -o movie.avi
> 
> My question is: ther is a way to use ogmtools to encode in ogm format or for use the ogg/vorbis audio streams directly in the command line of mencoder?
> 
> In case that it can not be implemented (technicaly, filosofical
> ly impossibility) where is the best way to encode ogm files using mencoder?


mencoder can't encode to ogm directly.  How about the method in the
README included with ogmtools ?

Michael