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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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2 <!-- $Revision$ -->
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3 <chapter id="mencoder">
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4 <title>Encoding with <application>MEncoder</application></title>
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6 <para>
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7 For the complete list of available <application>MEncoder</application> options
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8 and examples, please see the man page. For a series of hands-on examples and
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9 detailed guides on using several encoding parameters, read the
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10 <ulink url="../../tech/encoding-tips.txt">encoding-tips</ulink> that were
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11 collected from several mailing list threads on mplayer-users. Search the
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12 <ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">archives</ulink>
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13 for a wealth of discussions about all aspects of and problems related to
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14 encoding with <application>MEncoder</application>.
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15 </para>
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17 <sect1 id="menc-feat-mpeg4">
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18 <title>Encoding 2-pass MPEG4 (&quot;DivX&quot;)</title>
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20 <para>
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21 The name comes from the fact that this method encodes the file <emphasis>twice</emphasis>.
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22 The first encoding (dubbed pass) creates some temporary files
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23 (<filename>*.log</filename>) with a size of few megabytes, do not delete
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24 them yet (you can delete the AVI). In the second pass, the 2-pass output
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25 file is created, using the bitrate data from the temporary files. The
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26 resulting file will have much better image quality. If this is the first
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27 time you heard about this, you should consult some guides available on the
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28 net.
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29 </para>
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30
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31 <example>
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32 <title>copy audio track</title>
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33 <para>
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34 2-pass encode of a DVD to an MPEG4 (&quot;DivX&quot;) AVI while copying
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35 the audio track.
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36 <screen>
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37 mencoder dvd://2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o <replaceable>movie.avi</replaceable>
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38 mencoder dvd://2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -oac copy -o <replaceable>movie.avi</replaceable>
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39 </screen>
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40 </para>
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41 </example>
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43 <example>
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44 <title>encode audio track</title>
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45 <para>
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47 the audio track to MP3.
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48 <screen>
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51 </screen>
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52 </para>
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53 </example>
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54 </sect1>
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55
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56 <sect1 id="menc-feat-mpeg">
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57 <title>Encoding to MPEG format</title>
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58 <para>
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59 <application>MEncoder</application> can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output
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61 <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>'s
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62 <emphasis>mpeg1video</emphasis> codec, because players - except
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63 <application>MPlayer</application> - expect MPEG1 video, and MPEG1 layer 2 (MP2)
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64 audio streams in MPEG files.
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65 </para>
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67 <para>
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68 This feature is not very useful right now, aside that it probably has many bugs,
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69 but the more importantly because <application>MEncoder</application> currently
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70 cannot encode MPEG1 layer 2 (MP2) audio, which all other players expect in MPEG files.
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71 </para>
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73 <para>
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74 To change <application>MEncoder</application>'s output file format,
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75 use the <option>-of mpeg</option> option.
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76 </para>
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78 <para>
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79 Example:
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80 <screen>
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81 mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -oac copy <replaceable>other_options</replaceable> <replaceable>media.avi</replaceable> -o <replaceable>output.mpg</replaceable>
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82 </screen>
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84 </sect1>
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87 <sect1 id="menc-feat-rescale">
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88 <title>Rescaling movies</title>
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89
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90 <para>
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91 Often the need to resize movie images' size emerges. Its reasons can be
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92 many: decreasing file size, network bandwidth,etc. Most people even do
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93 rescaling when converting DVDs or SVCDs to DivX AVI. If you wish to rescale,
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94 read the <link linkend="aspect">Preserving aspect ratio</link> section.
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95 </para>
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97 <para>
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98 The scaling process is handled by the <literal>scale</literal> video filter:
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99 <option>-vf scale=<replaceable>width</replaceable>:<replaceable>height</replaceable></option>.
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100 Its quality can be set with the <option>-sws</option> option.
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101 If it's not specified, <application>MEncoder</application> will use 0: fast
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102 bilinear.
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103 </para>
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105 <para>
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106 Usage:
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107 <screen>
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108 mencoder <replaceable>input.mpg</replaceable> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=640:480 -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable>
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109 </screen>
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110 </para>
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111 </sect1>
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114 <sect1 id="menc-feat-streamcopy">
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115 <title>Stream copying</title>
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117 <para>
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118 <application>MEncoder</application> can handle input streams in two ways:
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119 <emphasis role="bold">encode</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">copy</emphasis>
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120 them. This section is about <emphasis role="bold">copying</emphasis>.
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121 </para>
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123 <itemizedlist>
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124 <listitem><para>
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125 <emphasis role="bold">Video stream</emphasis> (option <option>-ovc copy</option>):
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126 nice stuff can be done :) Like, putting (not converting!) FLI or VIVO or
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127 MPEG1 video into an AVI file! Of course only
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128 <application>MPlayer</application> can play such files :) And it probably
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129 has no real life value at all. Rationally: video stream copying can be
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130 useful for example when only the audio stream has to be encoded (like,
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131 uncompressed PCM to MP3).
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132 </para></listitem>
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133 <listitem><para>
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134 <emphasis role="bold">Audio stream</emphasis> (option <option>-oac copy</option>):
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135 straightforward. It is possible to take an external audio file (MP3,
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136 WAV) and mux it into the output stream. Use the
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137 <option>-audiofile <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option> option
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138 for this.
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139 </para></listitem>
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140 </itemizedlist>
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141 </sect1>
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144 <sect1 id="menc-feat-fix-avi">
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145 <title>Fixing AVIs with broken index or interleaving</title>
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146
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147 <para>
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148 Easiest thing. We simply copy the video and audio streams, and
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149 <application>MEncoder</application> generates the index. Of course this cannot fix possible bugs in
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150 the video and/or audio streams. It also fixes files with broken interleaving,
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151 thus the <option>-ni</option> option won't be needed for them anymore.
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152 </para>
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154 <para>
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155 Command:
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156 <screen>
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157 mencoder -idx <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -ovc copy -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable><!--
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158 --></screen>
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159 </para>
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162 <sect2 id="menc-feat-appending">
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163 <title>Appending multiple AVI files</title>
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165 <para>
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166 As a side-effect, the broken AVI fixer function enables <application>MEncoder</application>
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167 to append 2 (or more) AVI files:
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168 </para>
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170 <para>
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171 Command:
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172 <screen>cat <replaceable>1.avi</replaceable> <replaceable>2.avi</replaceable> &gt; <replaceable>3.avi</replaceable>
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173 mencoder -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> <replaceable>3.avi</replaceable></screen>
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174 </para>
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176 <note><para>
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177 This expects <filename>1.avi</filename> and <filename>2.avi</filename> to use
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275 <title>Explanation of the process:</title>
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277 <application>MEncoder</application> <emphasis>decodes</emphasis> the input image(s) with
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278 <systemitem class="library">libjpeg</systemitem> (when decoding PNGs, it
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282 <application>MEncoder</application> then feeds the decoded image to the
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287 <formalpara>
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288 <title>Examples</title>
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289 <para>
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293 <para>
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294 Creating an MPEG4 file from all the JPEG files in the current directory:
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295 <screen>
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296 mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf type=jpg:w=800:h=600:fps=25 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable>
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297 </screen>
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303 Creating an MPEG4 file from some JPEG files in the current directory:
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304 <screen>
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305 mencoder mf://<replaceable>frame001.jpg,frame002.jpg</replaceable> -mf type=jpg:w=800:h=600:fps=25 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable>
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314 <screen>
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323 <screen>
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324 mencoder mf:// -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=png -ovc raw -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable>
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335 Creating a Motion PNG (MPNG) file from all the PNG files in the current
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337 <screen>
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365 packaged in a single <filename>.rar</filename> archive.
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366 <application>MPlayer</application> can play these with the
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367 <option>-vobsub</option> and <option>-vobsubid</option> options.
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368 </para>
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370 <para>
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371 You specify the basename (i.e without the <filename>.idx</filename> or
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372 <filename>.sub</filename> extension) of the output files with
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373 <option>-vobsubout</option> and the index for this subtitle in the
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374 resulting files with <option>-vobsuboutindex</option>.
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375 </para>
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377 <para>
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378 If the input is not from a DVD you should use <option>-ifo</option> to
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379 indicate the <filename>.ifo</filename> file needed to construct the
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380 resulting <filename>.idx</filename> file.
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381 </para>
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383 <para>
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384 If the input is not from a DVD and you do not have the
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385 <filename>.ifo</filename> file you will need to use the
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386 <option>-vobsubid</option> option to let it know what language id to put in
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387 the <filename>.idx</filename> file.
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388 </para>
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390 <para>
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391 Each run will append the running subtitle if the <filename>.idx</filename>
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392 and <filename>.sub</filename> files already exist. So you should remove any
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393 before starting.
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394 </para>
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395
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396 <example>
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397 <title>Copying two subtitles from a DVD while doing 2-pass encoding</title>
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398 <screen>
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399 rm subtitles.idx subtitles.sub
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400 mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -sid 2
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401 mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 1 -sid 5<!--
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402 --></screen>
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403 </example>
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405 <example>
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406 <title>Copying a french subtitle from an MPEG file</title>
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407 <screen>
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408 rm subtitles.idx subtitles.sub
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409 mencoder <replaceable>movie.mpg</replaceable> -ifo <replaceable>movie.ifo</replaceable> -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid fr -sid 1<!--
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410 --></screen>
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411 </example>
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413 </sect1>
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415 <sect1 id="aspect">
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416 <title>Preserving aspect ratio</title>
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417 <para>
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418 DVDs and SVCDs (i.e. MPEG1/2) files contain an aspect ratio value, which
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419 describes how the player should scale the video stream, so humans won't
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421 (DivX) files, you have be aware that AVI headers don't store this value.
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422 Rescaling the movie is disgusting and time consuming, there has to be a better
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423 way!
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424 </para>
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425
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426 <para>There is</para>
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427
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428 <para>
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429 MPEG4 has an unique feature: the video stream can contain its needed aspect
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430 ratio. Yes, just like MPEG1/2 (DVD, SVCD) and H.263 files. Regretfully, there are
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431 <emphasis role="bold">no</emphasis> video players outside which support this
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432 attribute of MPEG4, except <application>MPlayer</application>.
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433 </para>
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435 <para>
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436 This feature can be used only with
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437 <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>'s
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438 <systemitem>mpeg4</systemitem> codec. Keep in mind: although
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439 <application>MPlayer</application> will correctly play the created file,
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440 other players will use the wrong aspect ratio.
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441 </para>
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443 <para>
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444 You seriously should crop the black bands over and below the movie image.
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445 See the man page for the usage of the <systemitem>cropdetect</systemitem> and
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446 <systemitem>crop</systemitem> filters.
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447 </para>
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449 <para>
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450 Usage
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451 <screen>mencoder <replaceable>sample-svcd.mpg</replaceable> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect -vf crop=714:548:0:14 -oac copy -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable></screen>
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452 </para>
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453 </sect1>
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455 <sect1 id="custommatrices"><title>Custom inter/intra matrices</title>
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457 <para>
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458 With this feature of
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459 <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
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460 you are able to set custom inter (I-frames/keyframes) and intra
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461 (P-frames/predicted frames) matrices. It is supported by many of the codecs:
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462 <systemitem>mpeg1video</systemitem> and <systemitem>mpeg2video</systemitem>
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463 are reported as working.
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464 </para>
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466 <para>
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467 A typical usage of this feature is to set the matrices preferred by the
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468 <ulink url="http://www.kvcd.net/">KVCD</ulink> specifications.
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469 </para>
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471 <para>
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472 The <emphasis role="bold">KVCD &quot;Notch&quot; Quantization Matrix:</emphasis>
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473 </para>
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476 Intra:
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502 Usage:
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503 <screen>
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504 $ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts inter_matrix=...:intra_matrix=...
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505 </screen>
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506 </para>
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509 <screen>
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510 $ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -ovc lavc -lavcopts
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511 vcodec=mpeg2video:intra_matrix=8,9,12,22,26,27,29,34,9,10,14,26,27,29,34,37,
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514 :inter_matrix=16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,20,22,24,26,
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516 36,38,40,28,30,32,34,36,38,42,42,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44 -oac copy -o svcd.mpg
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517 </screen>
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522 <title>Making a high quality MPEG4 (&quot;DivX&quot;) rip of a DVD movie</title>
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524 <para>
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525 One frequently asked question is "How do I make the highest quality DVD
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526 rip possible? I don't care about file size, I just want the best
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527 quality."
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528 </para>
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530 <para>
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531 This question is perhaps at least somewhat wrongly posed. After all, if
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533 stream from the DVD whole? Sure, your AVI will end up being 5GB, give
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534 or take, but if you want the best quality and don't care about size,
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535 this is certainly your best option.
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536 </para>
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538 <para>
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539 In fact, the reason you want to transcode a DVD into MPEG4 is
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540 specifically because you <emphasis role="bold">do</emphasis> care about
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541 file size.
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542 </para>
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544 <para>
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545 It's difficult to offer a cookbook recipe on how to create a very high
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546 quality DVD rip. There are several factors to consider, and you should
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547 understand these details or else you're likely to end up disappointed
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548 with your results. Below we'll investigate some of these issues, and
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549 then have a look at an example. We assume you're using
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550 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> to encode the video,
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551 although the theory applies to other codecs as well.
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552 </para>
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553
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554 <para>
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555 The main assumption of this guide is that you have no specific file size
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556 constraints and have no problem giving up bits in exchange for quality.
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557 While much of the information presented here is useful in any case, some
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558 of it may work against you if you have a file size goal, such as fitting a
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559 video on a CD.
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560 </para>
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561
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562 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-2pass">
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563 <title>Constant Quantizer vs. 2-pass</title>
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564
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565 <para>
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566 There are three approaches to encoding the video: constant bitrate
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567 (CBR), constant quantizer, and two-pass (ABR, or average bitrate).
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568 </para>
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570 <para>
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571 In each of these modes, <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>
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572 breaks the video frame into 16x16 pixel macroblocks and then applies a
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573 quantizer to each macroblock. The lower the quantizer, the better the
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574 quality and higher the bitrate. The method
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575 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> uses to determine
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576 which quantizer to use for a given macroblock varies and is highly
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577 tunable. (This is an extreme over-simplification of the actual
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578 process, but the basic concept is useful to understand.)
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579 </para>
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581 <para>
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582 When you specify a constant bitrate, <systemitem
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583 class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> will encode the video, discarding
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584 detail as much as necessary and as little as possible in order to remain
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585 lower than the given bitrate. If you truly don't care about file size,
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586 you could as well use CBR and specify a bitrate of infinity. (In
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587 practice, this means a value high enough so that it poses no limit, like
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588 10000Kbit.) With no real restriction on bitrate, the result is that
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589 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> will use the lowest
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590 possible quantizer for each macroblock (as specified by
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591 <option>vqmin</option>, which is 2 by default). As soon as you specify a
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592 low enough bitrate that <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>
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593 is forced to use a higher quantizer, then you're almost certainly ruining
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594 the quality of your video. In general, you should avoid CBR altogether if
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595 you care about quality.
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596 </para>
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598 <para>
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599 With constant quantizer, <systemitem
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600 class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> uses the same quantizer, as
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601 specified by the <option>vqscale</option> option, on every macroblock. If
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602 you want the highest quality rip possible, again ignoring bitrate, you can
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603 use <option>vqscale=2</option>. This will yield the same bitrate and PSNR
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604 (peak signal-to-noise ratio) as CBR with
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605 <option>vbitrate</option>=infinity and the default <option>vqmin</option>
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606 of 2.
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607 </para>
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608
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609 <para>
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610 The problem with constant quantizing is that it uses the given quantizer
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611 whether the macroblock needs it or not. That is, it might be possible
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612 to use a higher quantizer on a macroblock without sacrificing visual
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613 quality. Why waste the bits on an unnecessarily low quantizer? Your
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614 CPU has as many cycles as there is time, but there's only so many bits
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615 on your harddisk.
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616 </para>
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618 <para>
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619 With a two-pass encode, the first pass will rip the movie as though it
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620 were CBR, but it will keep a log of properties for each frame. This
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621 data is then used during the second pass in order to make intelligent
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622 decisions about which quantizers to use. During fast action or low
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623 detail scenes, higher quantizers will likely be used, and during
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624 slow moving or high detail scenes, lower quantizers will be used.
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625 </para>
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626
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627 <para>
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628 If you use <option>vqscale=2</option>, then you're wasting bits. If you
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629 use <option>vqscale=3</option>, then you're not getting the highest
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630 quality rip. Suppose you rip a DVD at <option>vqscale=3</option>, and
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631 the result is 1800Kbit. If you do a two-pass encode with
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632 <option>vbitrate=1800</option>, the resulting video will have <emphasis
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633 role="bold">higher quality</emphasis> for the <emphasis role="bold">same
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634 bitrate</emphasis>.
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635 </para>
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636
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637 <para>
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638 Since you're now convinced that two-pass is the way to go, the real
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639 question now is what bitrate to use? The answer is that there's no
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640 single answer. Ideally you want to choose a bitrate that yields the
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641 best balance between quality and file size. This is going to vary
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642 depending on the source video.
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643 </para>
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644
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645 <para>
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646 A good starting point for a very high quality rip is about 2000Kbit plus
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647 or minus 200Kbit. For fast action or high detail source video, or if
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648 you just have a very critical eye, you might decide on 2400 or 2600.
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649 For some DVDs, you might not notice a difference at 1400Kbit. It's a
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650 good idea to experiment with scenes at different bitrates to get a feel.
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651 </para>
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652
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653 </sect2>
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654
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655 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-crop">
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656 <title>Cropping and Scaling</title>
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657
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658 <para>
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659 Native DVD resolution is 720x480 for NTSC, and 720x576 for PAL, but
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660 there's an aspect flag that specifies whether it's full-screen (4:3) or
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661 wide-screen (16:9). Many (if not most) widescreen DVDs are not strictly
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662 16:9, and will be either 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 (cinescope). This means that
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663 there will be black bands in the video that will need to be cropped out.
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664 </para>
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665
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666 <para>
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667 <application>MPlayer</application> provides a crop detection filter that
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668 will determine the crop rectangle (<option>-vf cropdetect</option>).
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669 Because MPEG4 uses 16x16 macroblocks, you'll want to make sure that each
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670 dimension of the video you're encoding is a multiple of 16 or else you
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671 will be degrading quality, especially at lower bitrates. You can do this
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672 by rounding the width and height of the crop rectangle down to the nearest
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673 multiple of 16. When cropping, you'll want to increase the y-offset by
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674 half the difference of the old and the new height so that the resulting
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675 video is taken from the center of the frame. And because of the way DVD
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676 video is sampled, make sure the offset is an even number. (In fact, as a
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677 rule, never use odd values for any parameter when you're cropping and
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678 scaling video.) If you're not comfortable throwing a few extra pixels
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679 away, you might prefer instead to scale the video instead. We'll look
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680 at this in our example below.
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681 </para>
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682
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683 <para>
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684 Also, be careful about "half black" pixels at the edges. Make sure you
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685 crop these out too, or else you'll be wasting bits there that
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686 are better spent elsewhere.
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687 </para>
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688
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689 <para>
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690 After all is said and done, you'll probably end up with video whose pixels
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691 aren't quite 1.85:1 or 2.35:1, but rather something close to that. You
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692 could calculate the new aspect ratio manually, but
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693 <application>MEncoder</application> offers an option for <systemitem
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694 class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> called <option>autoaspect</option>
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695 that will do this for you. Absolutely do not scale this video in order to
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696 square the pixels unless you like to waste your harddisk space. Scaling
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697 should be done on playback, and the player will use the aspect stored in
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698 the AVI to determine the correct resolution.
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699 </para>
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700
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701 </sect2>
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702
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703 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-audio">
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704 <title>Audio</title>
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705
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706 <para>
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707 Audio is a much simpler problem to solve: just leave it as is. Even AC3
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708 5.1 streams are at most 448Kbit/s, and they're worth every bit. You
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709 might be tempted to transcode the audio to high quality Ogg Vorbis, but
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710 just because you don't have an A/V receiver for AC3 pass-through today
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711 doesn't mean you won't have one tomorrow. Future-proof your DVD rips by
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712 preserving the AC3 stream.
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713 </para>
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714
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715
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716 </sect2>
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717
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718 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-interlacing">
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719 <title>Interlacing and Telecine</title>
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720
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721 <para>
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722 Almost all movies are shot at 24 fps. Because NTSC is 29.97 fps, some
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723 processing must be done to this 24 fps video to make it run at the correct
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724 NTSC framerate. The process is called 3:2 pulldown, commonly referred to
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725 as telecine (because pulldown is often applied during the telecine
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726 process), and, naively described, it works by slowing the film down to
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727 23.976 fps, and repeating every fourth frame.
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728 </para>
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729
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730 <para>
12758
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731 No special processing, however, is done to the video for PAL DVDs, which
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732 run at 25 fps. (Technically, PAL can be telecined, called 2:2 pulldown,
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733 but this doesn't become an issue in practice.) The 24 fps film is simply
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734 played back at 25 fps. The result is that the movie runs slightly faster,
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735 but unless you're an alien, you probably won't notice the difference.
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736 Most PAL DVDs have pitch-corrected audio, so when they're played back at
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737 25 fps things will sound right, even though the audio track (and hence the
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738 whole movie) has a running time that's 4% less than NTSC DVDs.
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739 </para>
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12758
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741 <para>
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742 Because the video in a PAL DVD hasn't been altered, you needn't worry
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743 much about frame rate. The source is 25 fps, and your rip will be 25
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744 fps. However, if you're ripping an NTSC DVD movie, you may need to
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745 apply inverse telecine.
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746 </para>
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747
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748 <para>
12758
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749 For movies shot at 24 fps, the video on the NTSC DVD is either telecined
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750 29.97 fps, or else it is progressive 24 fps and intended to be telecined
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751 on-the-fly by a DVD player. On the other hand, TV series are usually
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752 only interlaced, not telecined. This is not a hard rule: some TV series
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753 are interlaced (such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer) whereas some are a
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754 mixture of progressive and interlaced (such as Angel, or 24).
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755 </para>
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756
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757 <para>
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758 It's highly recommended that you read the section on <link
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759 linkend="menc-feat-telecine">How to deal with telecine and interlacing
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760 in NTSC DVDs</link> to learn how to handle the different possibilities.
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761 </para>
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762
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763 <para>
12758
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764 However, if you're mostly just ripping movies, likely you're either
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765 dealing with 24 fps progressive or telecined video, in which case you can
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766 use the <option>pullup</option> filter <option>-vf
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767 pullup,softskip</option>.
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768 </para>
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769
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770 </sect2>
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771
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772
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773 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-filtering">
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774 <title>Filtering</title>
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775
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776 <para>
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777 In general, you want to do as little filtering as possible to the movie
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778 in order to remain close to the original DVD source. Cropping is often
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779 necessary (as described above), but do not scale the video. Although
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780 scaling down is sometimes preferred to using higher quantizers, we want
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781 to avoid both these things: remember that we decided from the start to
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782 trade bits for quality.
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783 </para>
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784
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785 <para>
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786 Also, do not adjust gamma, contrast, brightness, etc. What looks good
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787 on your display may not look good on others. These adjustments should
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788 be done on playback only.
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789 </para>
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790
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791 <para>
12758
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792 One thing you might want to do, however, is pass the video through a
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793 very light denoise filter, such as <option>-vf hqdn3d=2:1:2</option>.
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794 Again, it's a matter of putting those bits to better use: why waste them
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795 encoding noise when you can just add that noise back in during playback?
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796 Increasing the parameters for <option>hqdn3d</option> will further
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797 improve compressibility, but if you increase the values too much, you
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798 risk degrading the image visibily. The suggested values above
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799 (<option>2:1:2</option>) are quite conservative; you should feel free to
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800 experiment with higher values and observe the results for yourself.
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801 </para>
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802
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803 </sect2>
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804
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805
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806 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-example">
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807 <title>Example</title>
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808
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809 <para>
12758
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810 So, you've just bought your shiny new copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber
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811 of Secrets (widescreen edition, of course), and you want to rip this DVD
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812 so that you can add it to your Home Theatre PC. This is a region 1 DVD,
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813 so it's NTSC. The example below will still apply to PAL, except you'll
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814 omit <option>-ofps 23.976</option> (because the output framerate is the
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815 same as the input framerate), and of course the crop dimensions will be
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816 different.
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817 </para>
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818
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819 <para>
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820 After running <option>mplayer dvd://1</option>, we follow the process
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821 detailed in the section <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine">How to deal
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822 with telecine and interlacing in NTSC DVDs</link> and discover that it's
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823 24 fps progressive video, which means that we needn't use an inverse
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824 telecine filter, such as <option>pullup</option> or
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825 <option>filmdint</option>.
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826 </para>
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827
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828 <para>
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829 Next, we want to determine the appropriate crop rectangle, so we use the
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830 cropdetect filter:
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831
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832 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -vf cropdetect</screen>
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833
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834 Make sure you seek to a fully filled frame (such as a bright scene), and
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835 you'll see in <application>MPlayer</application>'s console output:
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836
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837 <screen>crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 57..419 (-vf crop=720:362:0:58)</screen>
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838
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839 We then play the movie back with this filter to test its correctness:
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840
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841 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -vf crop=720:362:0:58</screen>
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842
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843 And we see that it looks perfectly fine. Next, we ensure the width and
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844 height are a multiple of 16. The width is fine, however the height is
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845 not. Since we didn't fail 7th grade math, we know that the nearest
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846 multiple of 16 lower than 362 is 352.
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847 </para>
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848
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849 <para>
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850 We could just use <option>crop=720:352:0:58</option>, but it'd be nice
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851 to take a little off the top and a little off the bottom so that we
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852 retain the center. We've shrunk the height by 10 pixels, but we don't
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853 want to increase the y-offset by 5-pixels since that's an odd number and
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854 will adversely affect quality. Instead, we'll increase the y-offset by
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855 4 pixels:
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856
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857 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -vf crop=720:352:0:62</screen>
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858
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859 Another reason to shave pixels from both the top and the bottom is that we
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860 ensure we've eliminated any half-black pixels if they exist. Note that if
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861 your video is telecined, make sure the <option>pullup</option> filter (or
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862 whichever inverse telecine filter you decide to use) appears in the filter
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863 chain before you crop. If it is interlaced, deinterlace before cropping.
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864 (If you choose to preserve the interlaced video, then make sure your
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865 vertical crop offset is a multiple of 4.)
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866 </para>
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867
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868 <para>
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869 If you're really concerned about losing those 10 pixels, you might
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870 prefer instead to scale the dimensions down to the nearest multiple of 16.
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871 The filter chain would look like:
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872
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873 <screen>-vf crop=720:362:0:58,scale=720:352</screen>
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874
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875 Scaling the video down like this will mean that some small amount of
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876 detail is lost, though it probably won't be perceptible. Scaling up will
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877 result in lower quality (unless you increase the bitrate). Cropping
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878 discards those pixels altogether. It's a tradeoff that you'll want to
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879 consider for each circumstance. For example, if the DVD video was made
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880 for television, you might want to avoid vertical scaling, since the line
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881 sampling corresponds to the way the content was originally recorded.
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882 </para>
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883
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884 <para>
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885 On inspection, we see that our movie has a fair bit of action and high
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886 amounts of detail, so we pick 2400Kbit for our bitrate.
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887 </para>
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888
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889 <para>
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890 We're now ready to do the 2-pass encode. Pass 1:
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891
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892 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -ofps 23.976 -oac copy -vf crop=720:352:0:62,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc lavc \
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893 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=1 \
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894 -o Harry_Potter_2.avi</screen>
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895
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896 And pass 2 is the same, except that we specify <option>vpass=2</option>:
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897
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898 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -ofps 23.976 -oac copy -vf crop=720:352:0:62,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc lavc \
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899 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=2 \
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900 -o Harry_Potter_2.avi</screen>
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901 </para>
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902
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903 <para>
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904 The options <option>v4mv:mbd=2:trell</option> will greatly increase the
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905 quality at the expense of encoding time. There's little reason to leave
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906 these options out when the primary goal is quality. The options
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907 <option>cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3</option> select a comparison function that
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908 yields higher quality than the defaults. You might try experimenting with
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909 this parameter (refer to the man page for the possible values) as
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910 different functions can have a large impact on quality depending on the
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911 source material. For example, if you find
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912 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> produces too much
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913 blocky artifacting, you could try selecting the experimental NSSE as
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914 comparison function via <option>*cmp=10</option>.
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915 </para>
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916
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917 <para>
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918 For this movie, the resulting AVI will be 138 minutes long and nearly
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919 3GB. And because you said that file size doesn't matter, this is a
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920 perfectly acceptable size. However, if you had wanted it smaller, you
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921 could try a lower bitrate. Increasing bitrates have diminishing
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922 returns, so while we might clearly see an improvement from 1800Kbit to
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923 2000Kbit, it might not be so noticeable above 2000Kbit. Feel
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924 free to experiment until you're happy.
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925 </para>
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926
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927 <para>
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928 Because we passed the source video through a denoise filter, you may want
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929 to add some of it back during playback. This, along with the
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930 <option>spp</option> post-processing filter, drastically improves the
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931 perception of quality and helps eliminate blocky artifacts in the video.
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932 With <application>MPlayer</application>'s <option>autoq</option> option,
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933 you can vary the amount of post-processing done by the spp filter
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934 depending on available CPU. Also, at this point, you may want to apply
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935 gamma and/or color correction to best suit your display. For example:
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936
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937 <screen>mplayer Harry_Potter_2.avi -vf spp,noise=9ah:5ah,eq2=1.2 -autoq 3</screen>
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938
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939 </para>
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940 </sect2>
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941
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942 </sect1>
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943
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944 <sect1 id="menc-feat-telecine">
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945 <title>How to deal with telecine and interlacing within NTSC DVDs</title>
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946
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947 <formalpara>
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948 <title>Introduction</title>
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949 <para>
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950 I suggest you visit this page if you don't understand much of what
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951 is written in this document:
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952 <ulink url="http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=10">http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=10</ulink>
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953 This URL links to an understandable and reasonably comprehensive
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954 description of what telecine is.
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955 </para></formalpara>
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956
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957 <para>
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958 For technical reasons pertaining to the limitations of early
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959 television hardware, all video intended to be displayed on an NTSC
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960 television set must be 59.94 fields per second. Made-for-TV movies
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961 and shows are often filmed directly at 59.94 fields per second, but
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962 the majority of cinema is filmed at 24 or 23.976 frames per
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963 second. When cinematic movie DVDs are mastered, the video is then
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964 converted for television using a process called telecine.
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965 </para>
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966
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967 <para>
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968 On a DVD, the video is never actually stored as 59.94 fields per
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969 second. For video that was originally 59.94, each pair of fields is
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970 combined to form a frame, resulting in 29.97 frames per
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971 second. Hardware DVD players then read a flag embedded in the video
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972 stream to determine whether the odd- or even-numbered lines should
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973 form the first field.
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974 </para>
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975
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976 <para>
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977 Usually, 23.976 frames per second content stays as it is when
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978 encoded for a DVD, and the DVD player must perform telecining
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979 on-the-fly. Sometimes, however, the video is telecined
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980 <emphasis>before</emphasis> being stored on the DVD; even though it
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981 was originally 23.976 frames per second, it becomes 59.94 fields per
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982 second, and is stored on the disk as 29.97 frames per second.
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983 </para>
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984
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985 <para>
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986 When looking at individual frames formed from 59.94 fields per
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987 second video, telecined or otherwise, interlacing is clearly visible
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988 wherever there is any motion, because one field (say, the
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989 even-numbered lines) represents a moment in time 1/59.94th of a
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990 second later than the other. Playing interlaced video on a computer
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991 looks ugly both because the monitor is higher resolution and because
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992 the video is shown frame-after-frame instead of field-after-field.
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993 </para>
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994
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995 <para>
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996 Notes:
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997 </para>
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998 <itemizedlist>
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999 <listitem><para>
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1000 This section only applies to NTSC DVDs, and not PAL.
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1001 </para></listitem>
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1002 <listitem><para>
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1003 The example <application>MEncoder</application> lines throughout the
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1004 document are <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> intended for
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1005 actual use. They are simply the bare minimum required to encode the
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1006 pertaining video category. How to make good DVD rips or fine-tune
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1007 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> for maximum
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1008 quality is not within the scope of this document.
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1009 </para></listitem>
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1010 <listitem><para>
12758
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1011 There are a couple footnotes specific to this guide, linked like this:
11905
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1012 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link>
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1013 </para></listitem>
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1014 </itemizedlist>
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1015
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1016 <sect2 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident">
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1017 <title>How to tell what type of video you have</title>
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1018
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1019 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-progressive">
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1020 <title>Progressive</title>
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1021 <para>
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1022 Progressive video was originally filmed at 23.976 fps, and stored
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1023 on the DVD without alteration.
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1024 </para>
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1025
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1026 <para>
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1027 When you play a progressive DVD in <application>MPlayer</application>,
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1028 <application>MPlayer</application> will print the following line as
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1029 soon as the movie begins to play:
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1030
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1031 <screen> demux_mpg: 24fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.</screen>
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1032
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1033 From this point forward, demux_mpg should never say it finds
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1034 &quot;30fps NTSC content.&quot;
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1035 </para>
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1036
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1037 <para>
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1038 When you watch progressive video, you should never see any
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1039 interlacing. Beware, however, because sometimes there is a tiny bit
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1040 of telecine mixed in, where you wouldn't expect. I've encountered TV
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1041 show DVDs that have one second of telecine at every scene change, or
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1042 at seemingly random places. I once watched a DVD that had a
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1043 progressive first half, and the second half was telecined. If you
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1044 want to be <emphasis>really</emphasis> thorough, you can scan the
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1045 entire movie:
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1046
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1047 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -nosound -vo null -benchmark</screen>
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1048
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1049 Using <option>-benchmark</option> makes
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1050 <application>MPlayer</application> play the movie as quickly as it
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1051 possibly can; still, depending on your hardware, it can take a
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1052 while. Every time demux_mpg reports a framerate change, the line
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1053 immediately above will show you the time at which the change
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1054 occurred.
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1055 </para>
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1056
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1057 <para>
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1058 Sometimes progressive video is referred to as &quot;soft-telecine&quot;
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1059 because it is intended to be telecined by the DVD player.
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1060 </para>
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1061 </sect3>
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1062
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1063 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-telecined">
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1064 <title>Telecined</title>
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1065 <para>
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1066 Telecined video was originally filmed at 23.976, but was telecined
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1067 <emphasis>before</emphasis> it was written to the DVD.
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1068 </para>
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1069
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1070 <para>
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1071 <application>MPlayer</application> does not (ever) report any
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1072 framerate changes when it plays telecined video.
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1073 </para>
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1074
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1075 <para>
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1076 Watching a telecined video, you will see interlacing artifacts that
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1077 seem to &quot;blink&quot;: they repeatedly appear and disappear.
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1078 You can look closely at this by
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1079 <orderedlist>
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1080 <listitem>
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1081 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -speed 0.1</screen>
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1082 </listitem>
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1083 <listitem><para>
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1084 Seek to a part with motion.
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1085 </para></listitem>
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1086 <listitem><para>
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1087 Look at the pattern of interlaced-looking and progressive-looking
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1088 frames. If the pattern you see is PPPII,PPPII,PPPII,... then the
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1089 video is telecined. If you see some other pattern, then the video
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1090 may have been telecined using some non-standard method and
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1091 <application>MEncoder</application> cannot losslessly convert it
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1092 to progressive. If you don't see any pattern at all, then it is
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1093 most likely interlaced.
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1094 </para></listitem>
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1095 </orderedlist>
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1096 </para>
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1097
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1098 <para>
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1099 Sometimes telecined video is referred to as &quot;hard-telecine&quot;.
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1100 </para>
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1101 </sect3>
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1102
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1103 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-interlaced">
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1104 <title>Interlaced</title>
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1105 <para>
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1106
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1107 Interlaced video was originally filmed at 59.94 fields per second,
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1108 and stored on the DVD as 29.97 frames per second. The interlacing is
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1109 a result of combining pairs of fields into frames, because within
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1110 each frame, each field is 1/59.94 seconds apart.
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1111 </para>
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1112
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1113 <para>
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1114 As with telecined video, <application>MPlayer</application> should
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1115 not ever report any framerate changes when playing interlaced content.
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1116 </para>
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1117
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1118 <para>
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1119 When you view an interlaced video closely with <option>-speed 0.1</option>,
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1120 you will see that every single frame is interlaced.
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1121 </para>
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1122 </sect3>
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1123
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1124 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-mixedpt">
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1125 <title>Mixed progressive and telecine</title>
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1126 <para>
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1127 All of a &quot;mixed progressive and telecine&quot; video was originally
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1128 23.976 frames per second, but some parts of it ended up being telecined.
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1129 </para>
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1130
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1131 <para>
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1132 When <application>MPlayer</application> plays this category, it will
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1133 (often repeatedly) switch back and forth between &quot;30fps
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1134 NTSC&quot; and &quot;24fps progressive NTSC&quot;. Watch the bottom of
12578
3f543ec01d1e 's should be outside of <application> tags.
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1135 <application>MPlayer</application>'s output to see these messages.
11905
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1136 </para>
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1137
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1138 <para>
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1139 You should check the &quot;30fps NTSC&quot; sections to make sure
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1140 they are actually telecine, and not just interlaced.
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1141 </para>
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1142 </sect3>
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1143
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1144 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-mixedpi">
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1145 <title>Mixed progressive and interlaced</title>
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1146 <para>
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1147 In &quot;mixed progressive and interlaced&quot; content, progressive
11913
60a38618e6e4 duplicate words and spaces removed
nicolas
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1148 and interlaced video have been spliced together.
11905
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1149 </para>
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1150
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1151 <para>
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1152 This category looks just like &quot;mixed progressive and telecine&quot;,
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1153 until you examine the 30fps sections and see that they don't have the
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1154 telecine pattern.
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1155 </para>
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1156 </sect3>
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1157
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1158 </sect2>
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1159
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1160 <sect2 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode">
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1161 <title>How to encode each category</title>
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1162 <para>
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1163 As I mentioned in the beginning, example <application>MEncoder</application>
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1164 lines below are <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> meant to actually be used;
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1165 they only demonstrate the minimum parameters to properly encode each category.
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1166 </para>
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1167
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1168 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-progressive">
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1169 <title>Progressive</title>
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1170 <para>
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1171 Progressive video requires no special filtering to encode. The only
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1172 parameter you need to be sure to use is
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1173 <option>-ofps 23.976</option>. Otherwise, <application>MEncoder</application>
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1174 will try to encode at 29.97 fps and duplicate frames.
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1175 </para>
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1176
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1177 <para>
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1178 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -ovc lavc -ofps 23.976</screen>
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1179 </para>
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1180 </sect3>
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1181
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1182 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-telecined">
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1183 <title>Telecined</title>
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1184 <para>
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1185 Telecine can be reversed to retrieve the original 23.976 content,
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1186 using a process called inverse-telecine.
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1187 <application>MPlayer</application> contains two filters to
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1188 accomplish this: <option>detc</option> and
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1189 <option>ivtc</option>. You can read the manual page to see their
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1190 differences, but for DVDs I've never had a problem with
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1191 <option>ivtc</option>. Note that you should
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1192 <emphasis role="bold">always</emphasis> inverse-telecine before any
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1193 rescaling; unless you really know what you're doing,
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1194 inverse-telecine before cropping, too
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1195 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link>. Again,
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1196 <option>-ofps 23.976</option> is needed, too.
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1197 </para>
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1198
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1199 <para>
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1200 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf ivtc=1 -ovc lavc -ofps 23.976</screen>
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1201 </para>
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1202 </sect3>
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1203
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1204 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-interlaced">
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1205 <title>Interlaced</title>
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1206 <para>
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1207 For most practical cases it is not possible to retrieve a complete
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1208 progressive video from interlaced content. The only way to do so
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1209 without losing half of the vertical resolution is to double the
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1210 framerate and try to &quot;guess&quot; what ought to make up the
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1211 corresponding lines for each field (this has drawbacks - see method
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1212 3).
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1213 </para>
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1214
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1215 <orderedlist>
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1216 <listitem><para>
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1217
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1218 Encode the video in interlaced form. Normally, interlacing wreaks
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1219 havoc with the encoder's ability to compress well, but
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1220 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> has two
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1221 parameters specifically for dealing with storing interlaced video a
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1222 bit better: <option> ildct</option> and <option>ilme</option>. Also,
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1223 using <option>mbd=2</option> is strongly recommended
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1224 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[2] </link> because it
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1225 will encode macroblocks as non-interlaced in places where there is
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1226 no motion. Note that <option>-ofps</option> is NOT needed here.
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1227
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1228 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts ildct:ilme:mbd=2</screen>
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1229 </para></listitem>
12758
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1230 <listitem><para>
11905
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1231 Use a deinterlacing filter before encoding. There are several of
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1232 these filters available to choose from, each with its own advantages
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1233 and disadvantages. Consult <option>mplayer -pphelp</option> to see
11905
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1234 what's available (grep for &quot;deint&quot;), and search the
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1235 <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/info.html#mailing_lists">
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1236 MPlayer mailing lists</ulink> to find many discussions about the
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1237 various filters. Again, the framerate is not changing, so no
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1238 <option>-ofps</option>. Also, deinterlacing should be done after
11905
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1239 cropping <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and
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1240 before scaling.
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1241
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1242 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf pp=lb -ovc lavc</screen>
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1243 </para></listitem>
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1244 <listitem><para>
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1245 Unfortunately, this option is buggy with
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1246 <application>MEncoder</application>; it ought to work well with
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1247 <application>MEncoder G2</application>, but that isn't here yet. You
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1248 might experience crahes. Anyway, the purpose of <option> -vf
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1249 tfields</option> is to create a full frame out of each field, which
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1250 makes the framerate 59.94. The advantage of this approach is that no
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1251 data is ever lost; however, since each frame comes from only one
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1252 field, the missing lines have to be interpolated somehow. There are
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1253 no very good methods of generating the missing data, and so the
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1254 result will look a bit similar to when using some deinterlacing
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1255 filters. Generating the missing lines creates other issues, as well,
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1256 simply because the amount of data doubles. So, higher encoding
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1257 bitrates are required to maintain quality, and more CPU power is
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1258 used for both encoding and decoding. tfields has several different
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1259 options for how to create the missing lines of each frame. If you
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1260 use this method, then Reference the manual, and chose whichever
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1261 option looks best for your material. Note that when using
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1262 <option>tfields</option> you
12758
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1263 <emphasis role="bold">have to</emphasis> specify both
11905
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1264 <option>-fps</option> and <option>-ofps</option> to be twice the
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1265 framerate of your original source.
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1266
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1267 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf tfields=2 -ovc lavc -fps 59.94 -ofps 59.94</screen>
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1268 </para></listitem>
12758
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1269 <listitem><para>
11905
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1270 If you plan on downscaling dramatically, you can excise and encode
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1271 only one of the two fields. Of course, you'll lose half the vertical
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1272 resolution, but if you plan on downscaling to at most 1/2 of the
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1273 original, the loss won't matter much. The result will be a
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1274 progressive 29.97 frames per second file. The procedure is to use
11905
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1275 <option>-vf field</option>, then crop
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1276 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and scale
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1277 appropriately. Remember that you'll have to adjust the scale to
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1278 compensate for the vertical resolution being halved.
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1279 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf field=0 -ovc lavc</screen>
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1280 </para></listitem>
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1281 </orderedlist>
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1282 </sect3>
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1283
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1284 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-mixedpt">
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1285 <title>Mixed progressive and telecine</title>
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1286 <para>
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1287 In order to turn mixed progressive and telecine video into entirely
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1288 progressive video, the telecined parts have to be
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1289 inverse-telecined. There are two filters that accomplish this
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1290 natively, but a better solution most of the time is to use two
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1291 filters in conjunction (read onward for more detail).
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1292 </para>
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1293
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1294 <itemizedlist>
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1295 <listitem><para>
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1296 Currently the most reliable method to deal with this type of video
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1297 is to, rather than inverse-telecine the telecined parts, telecine
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1298 the non-telecined parts and then inverse-telecine the whole
11913
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1299 video. Sound confusing? softpulldown is a filter that goes through
11905
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1300 a video and makes the entire file telecined. If we follow
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1301 softpulldown with either <option>detc</option> or
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1302 <option>ivtc</option>, the final result will be entirely
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1303 progressive. Cropping and scaling should be done after the
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1304 inverse-telecine operations, and <option> -ofps 23.976</option> is
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1305 needed.
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1306
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1307 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf softpulldown,ivtc=1 -ovc lavc -ofps 23.976</screen>
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1308 </para>
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1309 </listitem>
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1310 <listitem><para>
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1311 <option>-vf pullup</option> is designed to inverse-telecine
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1312 telecined material while leaving progressive data alone. Pullup
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1313 doesn't really work well with the current
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1314 <application>MEncoder</application>, though, and is really intended
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1315 for use with <application>MEncoder G2</application> (whenever it's
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1316 ready). It works fine without <option>-ofps</option>, but
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1317 <option>-ofps</option> is needed to prevent choppy output. With
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1318 <option>-ofps</option>, it sometimes fails. The problems arise from
12578
3f543ec01d1e 's should be outside of <application> tags.
diego
parents: 12484
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1319 <application>MEncoder</application>'s behavior of dropping frames to
11905
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1320 maintain synchronization between the audio and video: it drops
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1321 frames before sending them through the filter chain, rather than
11913
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1322 after. As a result, <option>pullup</option> is sometimes deprived
11905
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1323 of the data it needs.
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1324 </para>
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1325
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1326 <para>
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1327 If <application>MEncoder</application> drops too many frames in a
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1328 row, it starves <option>pullup</option>'s buffers and causes it to
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1329 crash.
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1330 </para>
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1331
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1332 <para>
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1333 Even if <application>MEncoder</application> only drops one frame,
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1334 <option> pullup</option> still doesn't get to see it, and will end
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1335 up operating on an incorrect sequence of frames. Even though this
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1336 doesn't cause a crash, <option> pullup</option> won't be able to
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1337 make correct decisions on how to reassemble progressive frames, and
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1338 will either match fields together incorrectly or drop several fields
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1339 to compensate.
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1340 </para>
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1341 </listitem>
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1342
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1343 <listitem><para>
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1344 I haven't used <option>-vf filmdint</option> myself, but here's what
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1345 D Richard Felker III has to say:
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1346
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1347 <blockquote><para>It's OK, but IMO it tries to deinterlace rather
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1348 than doing inverse telecine too often (much like settop DVD
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1349 players &amp; progressive TVs) which gives ugly flickering and
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1350 other artefacts. If you're going to use it, you at least need to
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1351 spend some time tuning the options and watching the output first
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1352 to make sure it's not messing up.</para></blockquote>
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1353 </para></listitem>
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1354 </itemizedlist>
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1355 </sect3>
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1356
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1357 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-mixedpi">
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1358 <title>Mixed progressive and interlaced</title>
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1359 <para>
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1360 There are two options for dealing with this category, each of
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1361 which is a compromise. You should decide based on the
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1362 duration/location of each type.
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1363 </para>
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1364
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1365 <itemizedlist>
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1366 <listitem><para>
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1367 Treat it as progressive. The interlaced parts will look interlaced,
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1368 and some of the interlaced fields will have to be dropped, resulting
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1369 in a bit of uneven jumpiness. You can use a postprocessing filter if
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1370 you want to, but it may slightly degrade the progressive parts.
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1371 </para>
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1372
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1373 <para>
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1374 This option should definitely not be used if you want to eventually
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1375 display the video on an interlaced device (with a TV card, for
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1376 example). If you have interlaced frames in a 23.976 frames per
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1377 second video, they will be telecined along with the progressive
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1378 frames. Half of the interlaced "frames" will be displayed for three
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1379 fields' duration (3/59.94 seconds), resulting in a flicking
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1380 &quot;jump back in time&quot; effect that looks quite bad. If you
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1381 even attempt this, you <emphasis role="bold">must</emphasis> use a
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1382 deinterlacing filter like <option>lb</option> or
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1383 <option>l5</option>.
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1384 </para>
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1385
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1386 <para>
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1387 It may also be a bad idea for progressive display, too. It will drop
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1388 pairs of consecutive interlaced fields, resulting in a discontinuity
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1389 that can be more visible than with the second method, which shows
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1390 some progressive frames twice. 29.97 frames per second interlaced
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1391 video is already a bit choppy because it really should be shown at
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1392 59.94 fields per second, so the duplicate frames don't stand out as
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1393 much.
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1394 </para>
12758
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1395
11905
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1396 <para>
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1397 Either way, it's best to consider your content and how you intend to
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1398 display it. If your video is 90% progressive and you never intend to
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1399 show it on a TV, you should favor a progressive approach. If it's
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1400 only half progressive, you probably want to encode it as if it's all
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1401 interlaced.
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1402 </para>
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1403 </listitem>
12758
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1404
11905
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1405 <listitem><para>
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1406 Treat it as interlaced. Some frames of the progressive parts will
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1407 need to be duplicated, resulting in uneven jumpiness. Again,
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1408 deinterlacing filters may slightly degrade the progressive parts.
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1409 </para></listitem>
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1410
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1411 </itemizedlist>
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1412 </sect3>
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1413
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1414 </sect2>
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1415
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1416 <sect2 id="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">
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1417 <title>Footnotes</title>
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1418 <orderedlist>
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1419 <listitem><formalpara>
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1420 <title>About cropping:</title>
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1421 <para>
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1422 Video data on DVDs are stored in a format called YUV 4:2:0. In YUV
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1423 video, luma (&quot;brightness&quot;) and chroma (&quot;color&quot;)
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1424 are stored separately. Because the human eye is somewhat less
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1425 sensitive to color than it is to brightness, in a YUV 4:2:0 picture
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1426 there is only one chroma pixel for every four luma pixels. In a
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1427 progressive picture, each square of four luma pixels (two on each
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1428 side) has one common chroma pixel. You must crop progressive YUV
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1429 4:2:0 to even resolutions, and use even offsets. For example,
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1430 <option>crop=716:380:2:26</option> is OK but
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1431 <option>crop=716:380:3:26 </option> is not.
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1432 </para>
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1433 </formalpara>
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1434
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1435 <para>
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1436 When you are dealing with interlaced YUV 4:2:0, the situation is a
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1437 bit more complicated. Instead of every four luma pixels in the
11913
60a38618e6e4 duplicate words and spaces removed
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1438 <emphasis>frame</emphasis> sharing a chroma pixel, every four luma
11905
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1439 pixels in each <emphasis> field</emphasis> share a chroma
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1440 pixel. When fields are interlaced to form a frame, each scanline is
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1441 one pixel high. Now, instead of all four luma pixels being in a
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1442 square, there are two pixels side-by-side, and the other two pixels
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1443 are side-by-side two scanlines down. The two luma pixels in the
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1444 intermediate scanline are from the other field, and so share a
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1445 different chroma pixel with two luma pixels two scanlines away. All
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1446 this confusion makes it necessary to have vertical crop dimensions
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1447 and offsets be multiples of four. Horizontal can stay even.
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1448 </para>
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1449
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1450 <para>
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1451 For telecined video, I recommend that cropping take place after
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1452 inverse telecining. Once the video is progressive you only need to
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1453 crop by even numbers. If you really want to gain the slight speedup
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1454 that cropping first may offer, you must crop vertically by multiples
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1455 of four or else the inverse-telecine filter won't have proper data.
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1456 </para>
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1457
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1458 <para>
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1459 For interlaced (not telecined) video, you must always crop
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1460 vertically by multiples of four unless you use <option>-vf
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1461 field</option> before cropping.
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1462 </para>
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1463 </listitem>
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1464
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1465 <listitem><formalpara>
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1466 <title>About encoding parameters and quality:</title>
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1467 <para>
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1468 Just because I recommend <option>mbd=2</option> here doesn't mean it
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1469 shouldn't be used elsewhere. Along with <option>trell</option>,
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1470 <option>mbd=2</option> is one of the two
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1471 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> options that
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1472 increases quality the most, and you should always use at least those
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1473 two unless the drop in encoding speed is prohibitive (e.g. realtime
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1474 encoding). There are many other options to
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1475 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> that increase
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1476 encoding quality (and decrease encoding speed) but that is beyond
e1730b82a762 Telecine HOWTO by Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>, some modifications
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1477 the scope of this document.
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1478 </para>
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1479 </formalpara>
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1480 </listitem>
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1481
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1482 </orderedlist>
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1483
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1484 </sect2>
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1486 </sect1>
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62c5a17038ba XML version of MPlayer's doc
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1488 </chapter>