[MPlayer-users] Suitable for authoring a dvd

[RC]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:04:49 -0500
Aaron Peterson <aaron at alpete.com> wrote:

> how I could instead use
> mplayer to create mpeg files suitable for running through dvdauthor

This has been discussed over and over again.  Search the mailing list
archives.

> what good options might I have for creating video files of some type
> of lossless format without obnoxious file size?

If you want it lossless, it's got to be incredibly large.  Use huffyuv
to save up to 50% of the space, but don't expect to see any way to get
much more space savings and still being lossless.