On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:33 -0700, RC wrote:
> Other than that, it's a standard PAL DVD encode, as described in the
> HTML docs.

OK, I'm baffled.  I took the example from the HTML docs, copy audio
instead of re-encode, add the interlaced goodies as you suggested:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf
scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:ildct:ilme:mbd=2 -ofps 25 -o VTS_01_0.mpg VTS_01_0.VOB

What baffles me is that the resulting file is bigger than the original.
If I play either file in mplayer, both report a bitrate of 9800kbit/s.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why?

Thanks
Hans