[MPlayer-users] dvd video

[Aaron Peterson]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:57, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> > > is there a way I can use mplayer or mencoder to re-encode the video so
> > > it is smaller, but still dvd-video compatable 
> > 
> > Yes, there has been plenty of discussion on this dvd-authoring on this
> > list in the past.  Check the archives and I'm sure you'll find plenty of
> > examples of exactly how others do this.
> > 
> > > In addition, if I add -sid 0 to the above commandline, will mplayer
> > > dump the chosen subtitle into the file.m2v video stream?
> > 
> > Quite doubtful.  MPlayer is smart, but not that smart.  Mplayer doesn't
> > really modify the stream in any way when dumping to file.  
> > 
> > I'd say you'll probably have to dump the subtitles to a file seperately,
> > and then include them when you master the DVD. Never done that myself,
> > so I can't tell you with exact steps to do that are.
> 
> I've tried several combinations of options to produce mpeg 2 files with
> mencoder, but they always cause errors with mplex and dvdauthor so I
> must be doing something wrong.
> 
> The -sid 0 option works when given to mencoder for encoding with lavc
> (subtitles get muxed into the video mpeg4 video stream, albeit not so
> pretty, probably because of scaling) so I thought it was possible that
> mplayer might do the same.  spmux comes with dvdauthor and is supposed
> to add subtitles to the dvd.  I haven't used that yet, but I'll probably
> look into that.  A couple movies I've played with recently (Kill Bill
> vol1 and Last Samurai) are mostly in English, but have significant
> chunks in japanese with english subtitles.  That's why I ask.  
> 
> I guess I'll try searching the archives for "author" and "mpeg2" or
> something.

Nevermind.  tcrequant from the transcode package seems to be the easiest
program in the world to shrink m2v video with.
-- 
Aaron Peterson <aaron at alpete.com>
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