December 2006 - MEncoder-users - lists.mplayerhq.hu

What is the option for .configure that includes CD playing through CDROM-data-cable?
by Strong 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

I've downloaded the latest tar ball and want to configure then be able to play CDs through the data-cable I hove no sound cable from my CDROM. So how I can include this feature at configure stage?

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[MEncoder-users] On2 VP5 and VP62 in MPlayer 1.0rc1, please how...??
by Ratko Dakic 13 Jan '07

13 Jan '07

Hello, on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html page I see new MPlayer version "MPlayer 1.0rc1" and this: "The highlights of this release are native VC-1/WMV3, On2 VP5 and VP62 (used in some Flash video files) decoding" Is this mean that now we can encode .wmv/.avi/.mpeg etc. to .flv files with better quality???? How? I need command for that... Now I using this: mencoder input.wmv -o out_file.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=56 -mc 0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=5000:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -srate 22050 -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames what I must change? I need better quality because now is not very good... Thanks. -- Best regards, Ratko mailto:ratko@teol.net

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Spliting bilingual audio into separate streams
by Duncan Webb 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hi all, I hope that this is not a stupid question, having looked around a bit the answer is not too easy to find. A mpeg stream recorded from the television sometimes has bilingual audio, i.e. the left channel is English and the right channel is German, rather than two audio streams. Is it possible to separate the audio with mencoder into to separate streams with one language coming out from both speakers? And if so what are the correct options? TIA Duncan

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riping dvds to avi, retaining original encoding
by florian austin 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I don't own a TV so I watch all of my DVDs on my computer. I want to backup my DVDs to single-sided DVD-Rs and use and abuse those instead of the originals. First, my system recognizes 4.7GB DVD-R disks as 4.2GB disks. Most of my DVDs are larger than this. I want to try to avoid re-encoding my DVDs whenever possible to preserve the original quality. Many of my disks have a lot of extra content that can be dropped. Now, here's the confusing part. When I ripped "Big Fish" using vobcopy the resulting files are larger than 4.2GB. When I ripped that same DVD using mencoder(see below), the file was small enough to fit on a disk but it apparently did not copy any "seek" information. Also, the resulting avi file would only play in mplayer. I used the following command: mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o Big_Fish.avi note: I don't have Internet at home and am submitting this post from somewhere else. I am 99% sure this is the command I used. Unless mencoder complained I would not have passed any additional arguments. 1) Is all that extra data (i think about 500MB or so) seek information? 2) How can I rip this DVD into an AVI container, with seek information, that can also be played using other media players, such as Totem(xine, I believe) Thanks! - Florian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Time to encode a typical DVD to xvid
by sfullenwider 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 How long does it take most people to encode a typical DVD to an xvid avi? It's taking me around 15 hours a pass, which just seems far too much to me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFjaoeqc6ZeSK6KLkRAjl8AKCrK/cgZ6AJnR37GJ28kL2EPpvEZgCggC4P 8g4tT0dnG24k3my3b69kp6I= =8HpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Encoding to 3GP using mencoder
by Magnus Karlsson 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, is mencoder capable of encoding for mobile devices using formats such as 3GP? If so, can anyone give an example of a command line to use? Rgds, Magnus

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merging 30' DVDs into one?
by Roberto Sebastiani 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi. I'm a very new to the usage of mencoder, so please forgive me for the naiveness of the question. I've a video-camera (sony dcr-dvd105) saving the movies on 1.4GB mini-dvds (about 30-minutes in standard-play mode) in dvd Is there a way to "concat" 3-4 mini-dvd's into one, that is, to encode in sequance the content of 3-4 mini-dvd into only one 4.3GB dvd format, without loss of quality (and possibly without loosing the "scene" informations of the ifo files? Thanks Roberto

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Align subtitles horizontally
by Geoff W. 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Is there a way to do this? I'd like to align my subtitles to the bottom right but it doesnt seem possible currently. I found talk of a patch circa 2005 that incorporated this into mencoder.c but I can't actually find the patch, and even if I did I wouldnt expect it to work with current SVN. Any help would be much appreciated.

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how to add black borders?
by luis jure 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

hello list, i'm creating some dvds from assorted video files. as a reference i'm using the manual section "14.7. Using MEncoder to create VCD/SVCD/DVD -compliant files". i can't say i understand every option in the command line, but i get very good results following the examples. but there's one problem: many of the videos have aspects very different from 4/3 or 16/9. the manual mentions something like that: "If your movie has 2.35:1 aspect (most recent action movies), you will have to add black borders or crop the movie down to 16:9 to make a DVD [...]" i don't want to crop my files, but i can't find where it's explained how to add black borders (i only find how to _crop_ black border from a dvd when ripping to an avi file). thanks for any hint, and happy new year. lj

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FFmpeg x mencoder
by GeBu 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

What is better for video encoding? FFmpeg or mencoder? Do they produce different quality of outputs? Both share developers, servers, .... I do not understand. Jirka (GeBu)

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