[Gllug] mencoder and windows media / winamp

[Rich Walker]

Xander D Harkness <xander at harkness.co.uk> writes:


> >Thus spaketh Rich Walker on Tuesday 03 June 2003 2:01 pm:
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>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?
> >>
> 
> 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 looks good ... except ...


> 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.

this is a solution, thanks. 

winamp3 I can get re-distribution rights for easily, so can bundle on a
CD with the video - and hence I can just point the user at it. 

Looking at divx.com, I have to provide a link to their download - but if
the quality is up to it, that might be sufficient. 

cheers, Rich.

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