On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:56:04AM -0800, rcooley wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] The problem I'm experiencing is that the vbitrate which SHOULD give me a 700MB file is giving me a 586MB file instead. I've searched the archives (as well as Google), but get tons of unrelated results. I'm using a 2-pass method, which is really just the three-pass method described in the docs, without the final (3rd) pass. (no point in a third-pass when I know the size is wrong in the second-pass)
The commmands for each pass (verbatim) and some extra information follows:
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Pass-2: mencoder -alang en -dvd 1 -lameopts q=9:mode=1 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=526:vhq -oac copy -vop crop=718:432:0:24 -ovc lavc -o Apocalypse\ Now.avi
Looks like you forgot -ofps 23.976. (See all the duplicate frame messages??) This is required for NTSC movie DVDs to fix the broken telecine crap they use. Rich