[MPlayer-users] How To: best way to rescale

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:36:34PM -0800, Ken Bass wrote:
> And I wasn't sure recoding would give me any significantly better quality,
> given the time it would take to do it (even with a 4 core 3Ghz system it
> might take longer to recode then the length of the video). But as you
> surmised, and I found out, the quality was much worse, so it's probably best
> to just fully recode.

Choose some low crf or qscale value and you will get good quality.
Choose some low quality encoding options with that and you should easily
get 2x real-time encoding.
Only disadvantage is huge file size, but it shouldn't be so hard to get
something acceptable with DVD-size.