[MPlayer-users] Perfect recipe for B&W Classics

[CD Baric]

Hey Reimar:

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:45:10PM -0700, CD Baric wrote:
>> I know my results tried over the years are not that great even at very
>> high bit-rates compared to other rippers (Windows). This is in
>> contrast to the truly excellent results I have had with colour rips
>> (thanks guys).

> Just add -vf format=y8,scale to those colour rips and you have encoded
> a B&W film. Unless someone broke the encoder very severely they will be
> no worse than the colour ones. So we can then conclude, that if you have
> a problem with some films, it is not because they are B&W. It might be
> that those films e.g. contain much more noise and were filmed with a
> far more shaky camera, in which case you might try some denoising but in
> general will always need a far higher bitrate.

> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger

Thanks again Reimar. Sorry for the top-post.

-vf format=y8,scale

I am building a new box (new to me) with an AMD 64 Dual Core (used)
with lots of memory (used) so am looking forward to trying lots of
different spells. Here is my favorite recipe for TV shows:

mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device VIDEO_TS/
-alang en
-oac mp3lame
-lameopts abr:br=128:vol=3
-vf lavcdeint,crop=704:464:8:8,hqdn3d=2:1:2
-ovc lavc
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1280:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=1
-o test.avi
&&
mencoder dvd://1
-dvd-device VIDEO_TS/
-alang en
-oac mp3lame
-lameopts abr:br=128:vol=3
-vf lavcdeint,crop=704:464:8:8,hqdn3d=2:1:2
-ovc lavc
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1280:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=2
-o 'Buffy-s1e01.avi'

Any thoughts?

Very best regards,

CD Baric