Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

["Calvin Walton" <calvin.walton@gmail.com>]

On 8/28/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > For DVDs, try this:
> >
> > mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \
> > -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
> > -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:\
> > vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 \
> > -ofps 25 -o outfile.mpeg infile

Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change
to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to "24/10001" or "30/10001"
(the first for movies, second for tv shows)

> But: the mpeg doesn't seem to scale right.  My laptop display is
> 1680x1050, and hence the original dv output (4:3) has black edges on
> each side, but the converted mpeg plays "stretched", so that everybody
> looks fat!

You could try dropping the -aspect option from the mencoder command
line and let mplayer calculate the aspect itself, it's normally pretty
good at that.

-- 
Calvin Walton
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