On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:31:40AM +0100, Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] Hello,
when encoding "dark" movies like "Panic Room" or "From Hell", the assumed bitrate to end up in a divx about 1400 MB, i.e. about 1390 for "From Hell", does end in an avi of around only 900 MB (3-pass encoding). Giving the bitrate of about 1200 to mencoder does not make any difference to the file size of the avi; it is also around 900 MB. Are there any special filters or options to libavcodec handling this kind of "dark" movies, so that the "calculated" avi size will be reached after encoding?
The command line for mencoder has been:
(have encoded the audio first), then -->
nice -+19 mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device $DVD_DEV -oac copy -o /dev/null -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1386:vhq:vpass=1:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -vop scale=640:352,crop=720:434:0:74
wait
nice -+19 mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device $DVD_DEV -oac copy -o from_hell.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1386:vhq:vpass=2:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -vop scale=640:352,crop=720:434:0:74
Thanks for hints,
Hmm, isn't the whole idea of a two-cd dvd rip that you want to keep the video bitrate reasonable and use -oac copy to get 5.1 ac3 audio?? Using insanely high bitrates like 1200+ will not generally improve quality (unless you're using a crappy encoder like divx3/4, or HUGE resolution). Rich