[Gllug] mencoder and windows media / winamp

[Ashley Evans]

> So far, I have a 60MB VCD and a 200MB MPEG-2 recorded with -b 6000 -q 2
> (or similar) from kino using mjpegtools.
>
> These are ... okay ... but I'm still hoping for a better solution.
>
> I'm now further hindered by not being able to extract the data from kino
> for mencoder - it won't read kino's "plain" unencode .avi files ...
>
> And I'm not even going to get started on the "Athlon overtemperature
> meltdown during video encoding" issues...

"mencoder -ovc help" will show all available video compressors. Using lavc's 
msmpeg4 codec will make videos that will play on standard win2k & XP, not 
sure about others though. Try it with "mencoder input.mpg -oac mp3lame 
-lameopts vbr=3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500 -o 
output.mpg" There are *many* options for the various codec with mencoder the 
man page is quite descriptive but more info can be found in the MPlayer docs 
@ http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/

esp. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#libavcodec.

I've just noticed in those docs that theres a wmv1 compatible compresser which 
may be of use.

hth

Ashley.

>
> cheers, Rich.
>
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