On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Chris Spackman wrote: > 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?
Nope, actually I'm not planning of writing a book, although if I put together everything I have written about mplayer I would have my own bible =) I must emphasize that everything I know I have learned from the man pages from both mplayer and mencoder, and the docs that are included with each mplayer (and on the mplayer site). > 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? I'm afraid it's not all that straighforward as in windows. There are other tools for linux that can make DVD's, however I like to remain loyal to mplayer as it truly is the bast, just not the easiest. The others I have tried all required then the DVD firsdt to be compied to the harddrive, something I find total bullsh1t. Mplayer was the first, or one of the first linux programs to rip on-the-fly, and it really works great! It's a LOT faster than all other Windows programs I have found and tried too. I cannot suggest others therefore as I have too little experience with other programs. As for the options you mention, beats me ;-) Really, I don't know, but they do have their features. The only features I use not mentioned in my previous e-mails is cropping, but hell, don't ask me to explain that properly ;-) I still don't understand it totally ;-) at least not enough to be able to exlain it. I just try and try till I get it right. The latest mencoders (cvs versions) have a cropping auto-detect function which made my life a lot easier ;-) > That sort of stuff. So, thanks for the simple straight-forward command > and explanation. I'm glad to have helped, as little as I actually have. At least I tried ;-) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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