On Thu, 4 May 2006 09:11:02 -0400 compn <tempn@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
-ovc vfw only supports one output codec iirc.
H:\>mencoder -ovc help|grep vfw vfw - VfW DLLs, currently only AVID is supported.
The docs are wrong a lot... It's limited and undocumented, but it works. Perhaps I'll send a patch... I'm probably one of only 2-3 people using -ovc vfw. See my "success thread" from about 6 months ago when encoding with -ovc vfw: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/38781/focus=38781 Actually, believe it or not, you've just solved my problem. I was completely mistaken about which codecs were actually working. Sorry for wasting time. Chalk this one up to "I'm an idiot for submitting bugreports late at night."
its in the todo to get it working with all vfw codecs. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/TODO
I'd LOVE to see bitrate selection added, but DLL/codec selection is already there, and working with a few codecs. In fact, I pledge $5 to whoever writes the necessary code to allow setting a bitrate for encoding with vfw. :-)