[MPlayer-users] Mencoder options for fastest first pass XVID encoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Mauricio Kanada <mkanada <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> First pass: -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200:vpass=1:threads=4:autoaspect:turbo

1: Please note that you are not using xvid but FFmpeg's MPEG-4 ASP encoder (it
is supposed to produce similar/better results, but there never was a useful
comparison).

2: Your question should be covered by the documentation:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html

3: Note that mencoder is not an actively maintained program, you should use
ffmpeg for nearly all use cases (de-interlacer patch for FFmpeg is currently
pending).

Carl Eugen