[Gllug] mencoder and windows media / winamp

[Xander D Harkness]

Alistair Mann wrote:

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>Thus spaketh Rich Walker on Tuesday 03 June 2003 2:01 pm:
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>>Hi
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>>I'm trying to produce some video to ship on a CD to people. Bitrate is
>>not a problem - it's about 6 minutes, and it's going on a CD on its
>>own. So I'd like to produce a video at decent quality.
>>
>>Problem: I can't find a set of options for mencoder (or kino which uses
>>mjpegtools) that will produce something that will actually play on
>>Windows Media or Winamp. VideoCD works, but I was hoping for higher
>>quality. Any ideas?
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mencoder -alang en -dvd $track1 -vop scale -zoom -xy $width -o 
/home/owner/$filename.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$bitrate -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=256

This will rip and encode track one of a dvd  you can replace it with:

mencoder mynewfilm.mpg -vop scale -zoom -xy $width -o 
/home/owner/$filename.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$bitrate -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=256

This will take your film mynewfilm.mpg and recode it as a divx avi

the mpeg4 that we use here is divx

If you go to divx.com and download the free player for windows then most 
windows players (including winamp) can play it.  The limitation is that 
windows does not come with divx as standard. 

Iam not sure what the defaults for sound are under mencoder; however if 
you do not specify mp3 it might use ogg (which I love) which will 
require other plugins for WMP, winamp3 comes with ogg as standard.

Have fun
Xander

>mencoder as supplied with mplayer comes with a man page that details options. 
>Is that insufficient?
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