On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:19:49 +0200 (CEST) Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=633 > -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr -o Matrix.avi" > > (all on one line) > > Broken down this is: > > -dvd 1 =use track 1 of the DVD > -ovc lavc =use the libavcodec (included in mplayer) for the "ovc" > (Output Video Codec) > -lavcopts.. =use the DivX codec (opensource), with Very High Quality > (vhq), with a video bitrate (vbitrate) of 633 > -oac mp3lame =for the Output Video Codec (oac), use lame > -lameopts... =for lame, use a bitrate (br) of 96kb/s with a Constant > Bitrate (cbr) > -o Matrix.avi =Output results to Matrix.avi Thank you very much! I have been playing around with mencoder for a while, trying to get everything to work. Now it does. Turns out i didn't have lame installed. You are planning to write that book, right? Please? Personally, the big problem for me, and i assume many other video / multimedia newbies, is that i have no idea what most of the options do, or what all the technical stuff means. Kinda like the situation with people who are new to linux -- something that is simple for the initiated can really discourage a newbie. Like `open an xterm, su to root, and mount the file on loopback as type ext2'. That could cause a linux newbie to go running straight back to ms windows. I feel the same way when i read the mplayer / mencoder manpage. What is demuxing? What is deinterlacing? What is a vrc_strategy? Do i need that? That sort of stuff. So, thanks for the simple straight-forward command and explanation. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9
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