[MPlayer-users] Converting old VHS tapes to DVD

[Ivan Imperl]

Nedavno Nico Sabbi pise:

| You should consider using -oac toolame instead of acodec=mp2 (that 
| sounds terrible).
| toolame at 112 kb/s cbr  is already acceptable; obviously the higher
| the bitrate the better
| the quality.
| You need to download this librarized version of toolame
| http://users.tpg.com.au/adslblvi/toolame/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2
| and install it in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.

I am transferring videos from VHS-C camcorder mono audio via BT878 video
(Leadtek WinFast tv card). Sounds OK to me the way it is.

In DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg.html :

"This feature is not very useful right now, aside that it probably has
many bugs, but the more importantly because MEncoder currently cannot
encode MPEG1 layer 2 (MP2) audio, which all other players expect in MPEG
files."

Is this old document still not changed, or will my file be not usable in
DVD players?
 
| You should also add -of mpeg.

OK.

| >I probably need to add some borders on top and bottom because scaling
| >(the way I am grabbing from camcorder) distorts picture somewhat.
| 
| the tv card should be able to upscale for you; if you want you can add
| 
| borders with -vf expand.

So hire is what I am doing now:

$ mencoder -endpos 10 -tv \
driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=0:input=0:amode=0 tv:// \
-o dvd.avi -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
acodec=mp2:vcodec=mpeg2video:vhq:keyint=25:vbitrate=5555:scplx_mask=0.2\
-of mpeg -vf scale=720:528,expand=720:576 -srate 48000

Can I do any better? If not, I will go the next step, figuring out how
dvdauthor works... Any pointers, maybe someone wrote step by step
instructions for most common cases, any links?

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