[MPlayer-users] is mencoder as good as nandub ?

[linux user]

Can I ask a question here:

I have read thru the docs and believe I have read almost
everything. including encodeing tips. Still I have
question.

I have DVD with 3 pass I extract audio to frameno.avi. now
mencoder suggests bitrates. Is this bases on DVD original
dimensions? IE. if I want endproduct in 640 width do I put
in crop 640*???

When I have a movie that I want to resize and de-interlace.
do I de-interlace in the second pass and resize in the
third? pass?

Thanx

G

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:47:39 -0700
 Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org> wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> >Most of the best dvd rips out there are done with nandub
> and their
> >quality is usually outstanding. With patience and good
> understanding of
> >command-line options, is it possible for mencoder to
> give comparable
> >results? Or is mencoder not quite yet there? 
> >
> 
> Encoding quality depends less on the program and more on
> the codec used.
> Though, being able to appropriately crop/scale, remove
> telecine from,
> and sometimes denoise the video can help matters very
> much. I've never
> used nandub, but I can speak highly of mencoder and its
> video filters.
> 
> As for the codec, are you talking about DivX 5? With
> mencoder we usually
> use libavcodec mpeg4 ("lavc"). Lavc supports more
> features of mpeg4,
> and, properly tuned, can give quality at least as good as
> DivX 5, and
> probably better.
> 
> -Corey
> 
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