[MEncoder-users] Video and Audio async

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: rcooley at spamcop.net

>This is very bad advice.
>Your command-line completely throws away the MP3 audio, and you'll end 
up with audio directly copied from the source file anyhow.

I screwed up.  You're right, that was wrong, it should have been:

mencoder input.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc -copy -mc 0 -ofps 25 -o 
input-mp3-copy.avi

mencoder input-mp3-copy.avi -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts 
pass=1:turbo -mc 0 -ofps 25 -o output.avi

mencoder input-mp3-copy.avi -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts 
pass=2:bitrate=300 -mc 0 -ofps 25 -o output.avi

I forgot to change the filename for the 2nd and 3rd passes.  This way, 
you are doing the mp3lame re-encode one the first pass, then using that 
output file to do the second and third passes.  Sorry about that.  I 
had a feeling I had done that one wrong.  Good catch.

As for doing the third pass with the audio, I was doing that, but I 
have had some issues with the output file having the wrong aspect.  On 
some machines the aspect is played fine and on others it's changed to 
1.50:1 for both 1.78:1 and 1.33:1.  Not a big deal on a wide screen, 
just an extra set of slightly lighter shaded black bars.  But on a 
fuill screen, it crops the file.  Does it on lots of different versions 
of mencoder/mplayer for some reason.  Generally, when doing a movie, 
the audio is always smaller with mp3lame, but on shorter episodes like 
say Spongebob, it's not.
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