April 2012 - MEncoder-users - lists.mplayerhq.hu

change frame rate
by Shiyuan 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hi, I have an avi video with 5000 frames. The original frame rate is 15 frames/per second, and it takes 300 seconds to play the whole video. I want the video to play faster so that it takes less time to complete, so I change the frame rate using the following command: mencoder in.avi -o out.avi -ofps 100 -ovc copy However, out.avi still take around 300 seconds to complete, even though out.avi does have fps of 100fps according to the info displayed by mplayer. What command options should I use if I want the output video to be complete in 50 sec? Thanks. Shiyuan

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Help with mencoder
by JD 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hi, I wanted to combine 12 flash video files (from youtube) into a single avi file. So I did cat at Zachar*.flv > Zach_all.flv $ mencoder Zach_all.flv -o Zach_all.avi -forceidx -ovc copy -oac pcm The output shows skipping frames, and missing aspect information, as you see below. What do I need to do to fix that, so thet when I am transcoding into .avi, I do not get these skips and missing aspect info? MEncoder SVN-r31628-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x8378f0a libavformat file format detected. [flv @ 0x92d07a0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0 VIDEO: [H264] 480x270 0bpp 29.917 fps 119.2 kbps (14.5 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:44 fourcc:0x34363248 size:480x270 fps:29.917 ftime:=0.0334 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 49.5 kbit/3.51% (ratio: 6184->176400) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== videocodec: framecopy (480x270 0bpp fourcc=34363248) Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Pos: 0.7s 21f ( 0%) 14.38fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.067 [0:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 1.1s 33f ( 0%) 18.45fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.068 [150:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 6.0s 182f ( 0%) 38.81fps Trem: 65min 1014mb A-V:0.067 [148:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 23.5s 706f ( 0%) 43.90fps Trem: 70min 1142mb A-V:0.067 [106:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 38.4s 1153f ( 0%) 44.83fps Trem: 68min 1147mb A-V:0.067 [113:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 57.4s 1723f ( 0%) 44.84fps Trem: 66min 1117mb A-V:0.068 [124:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 76.9s 2306f ( 1%) 44.36fps Trem: 65min 1089mb A-V:0.067 [128:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 98.4s 2950f ( 1%) 44.17fps Trem: 65min 1092mb A-V:0.067 [126:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 117.5s 3522f ( 1%) 43.68fps Trem: 65min 1086mb A-V:0.067 [128:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 132.5s 3972f ( 2%) 43.76fps Trem: 66min 1092mb A-V:0.067 [127:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 153.7s 4608f ( 2%) 44.14fps Trem: 66min 1104mb A-V:0.067 [126:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 173.1s 5190f ( 2%) 43.84fps Trem: 68min 1133mb A-V:0.067 [120:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 190.3s 5705f ( 3%) 44.08fps Trem: 67min 1122mb A-V:0.067 [121:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 211.7s 6347f ( 3%) 43.80fps Trem: 66min 1114mb A-V:0.068 [124:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 228.7s 6856f ( 3%) 43.84fps Trem: 66min 1113mb A-V:0.067 [124:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 248.1s 7436f ( 4%) 44.06fps Trem: 65min 1110mb A-V:0.067 [125:1411] Skipping frame! Pos: 265.3s 7954f ( 4%) 43.82fps Trem: 66min 1120mb A-V:0.067 [123:1411] Skipping frame!

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Help with MPG video encoding
by Walter Belhaven 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Hi, I've got a question on how to get the best possible MPG encoding of a movie source, "at any price" so to speak -- i.e., as many bits as the encoder needs to get the highest possible video quality. It appears to me that the MPG encoding process is introducing artifacts that are present regardless of the amount of "free reign" I give to the encoder with respect to quantization, bitrate, and the like. My bottom line question is thus: "Are these artifacts inherent in MPG encoding, or am I just not twiddling the knobs and dials on the encoder correctly?" Here's all the details ... My source is a mixed hard- and soft-telecined "movie" at 1080/60i that I'm trying to tanscode to 480/24p, soft telecined to 480/60i, for ultimate burning to an NTSC DVD-Video. When I use mencoder to inverse telecine, crop out the crud, expand back to the original letterbox ratio (it's 2.35:1, not 16/9), and 'encode' the video with HUFFYUV (422P), the resulting video looks stunning, with no 'blocking' artifacts to speak of. This, of course, is as expected. But when I encode the video in MPG2 or MPG4, even with vqscale=1 or vqscale=2, I see sometimes severe blocking in the resulting video. Is this because the chroma is being subsampled vertically and horizontally (4:2:0), or is it because 'vqscale' is (perhaps necessary but) not sufficient to get "maximum quality at any price" encoding? Thanks, WB ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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insert an image - overlay image
by Rossana Guerra 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

Hello, I am a truly beginner, I recently installed Mencoder, I need to set a logo onto an .AVI file. I read many examples but I couldn't then work properly. I tryed what is said here http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/overlay-images-video-using-mplayer-and-… >From console I did this: logo = ... mkfifo tfifo # Convert logo to RGBA. convert $logo tlogo.rgba # Copy logo to fifo.(echo "RGBA32 $logo_width $logo_height 0 0 0 1" ; cat tlogo.rgba ) >tfifo & but it got frozen, I need to abort the command. # Convert input video with overlay from fifo. mencoder -oac pcm -ovc raw -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo -o $output_video $input_video Thanks in advance for any help. Regards Rosg

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encoding VP8 through mencoder
by Jared 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hi, all. I've used mencoder for quite a while to encode h264 videos, and now I'm looking to test VP8. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble figuring out how to pass the libvpx-specific options over to ffmpeg to do the encoding. Here's a somewhat shortened version of command I'm working with: mencoder SC_0010B.VOB -o SC_0010B.vp8 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts threads=8:vcodec=libvpx:vbitrate=1000:subq=6:o=qmin=0,qmax=60,mb_threshold=0 -vf hqdn3d=2:1:2,harddup That seems to work fine as far as producing a VP8-encoded video (I'm not worried about the audio at this time). However, I also want to pass the following options, as documented in ffmpeg's man page under "libvpx encoder AVOptions:" cpu-used=0,auto-alt-ref=1,lag-in-frames=16,quality=good Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to make that work. If I add them to the o= argument, I get "Your options /<SNIP>/ look like gibberish to me pal". If I add them to -lavcopts directly, I get "Error parsing option on the command line: -lavcopts", I'm not sure how else I can do this. Could anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- Jared

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multiple option declaration
by Gabri Nurtinaz Shally 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

i usually encoding video like this mencoder -profile x264 -x264encopts bitrate=800 -x264encopts pass=1 i'm using batch file so thus multiple option is necessary. but sometimes ago, i forgot which revision, after updating mplayer, thus batch not working anymore, i can't control the bitrate anymore. it's looks like the second option replace the first one completely, not merged. knowing it, i change my batch file so that thus two option merged into one. mencoder -profile x264 -x264encopts bitrate=800:pass=1 but now, after using revision 34401, thus batch file not working again. it seems the command line argument, replace completly option defined in profile x264 that i write in mencoder.conf what happend? do i have to rewrite my batch file again, putting thus long line i defined in mencoder.conf? or there is something i didn't know? thanks for replying. btw, i'm using sherpya's build from oss.netfarm.it

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-rawvideo size option does not work.
by Bill Crockett 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

-rawvideo <option1:option2:...> Available options are: fps=<value> rate in frames per second (default: 25.0) sqcif|qcif|cif|4cif|pal|ntsc set standard image size w=<value> image width in pixels h=<value> image height in pixels i420|yv12|yuy2|y8 set colorspace format=<value> colorspace (fourcc) in hex or string constant. Use -rawvideo format=help for a list of possible strings. size=<value> frame size in Bytes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I understand (almost) all the options above, but when I put in a "size=<value>" option, this is displayed: Frame too small! <31754<663552> Wrong format? How do you calculate the frame size in Bytes please? I thought it means the files size divided by the number of frames.

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Selectable subtitle
by Janos Szamosfalvi 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

I'm encoding directly from a DVD, and I would like to know how do I include a subtitle that is not hardcoded into the main movie. In other words, if I play it with VLC, I can choose to enable it or not. Mu current commandline: mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device k: -alang en -slang en -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -o tmp4.mp4 -srate 44100 -af resample=44100:0:1,format=s16le -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -ofps 24000/1001 -vf crop=704:480:10:0,scale=800:600,harddup -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1000:bframes=2:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b:keyint=24:psnr:ssim:pass=2

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