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Document the skip* lavd options.
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4 I. Preparing to encode |
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5 1. Identifying source material and framerate |
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6 2. Selecting the quality you want |
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7 3. Constraints for efficient encoding |
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8 4. Cropping and scaling |
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11 II. Containers and codecs |
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12 1. Where the movie will be played |
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13 2. Constraints of DVD, SVCD, and VCD |
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14 3. Limitations of AVI container |
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16 III. Basic MEncoder usage |
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17 1. Selecting codecs & format |
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18 2. Selecting input file or device |
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19 3. Loading video filters |
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20 4. Notes on A/V sync |
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22 IV. Encoding procedures |
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23 1. Encoding progressive video |
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24 2. Two-pass encoding |
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25 3. Encoding interlaced video |
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26 4. Deinterlacing |
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27 5. Inverse telecine |
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28 6. Capturing TV input |
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29 7. Dealing with mixed-source content |
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30 8. Low-quality & damaged sources |
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33 1. Noise removal |
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50 material comes from DVD or broadcast/cable/satellite TV, it will be |
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52 PAL for Europe, etc. But it's important to realize that this is just |
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53 the formatting for presentation on a television, and often does NOT |
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54 correspond to the original format of the movie. In order to produce a |
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55 suitable encode, you need to know the original format. Failure to take |
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60 Here is a list of common types of source material, where you're likely |
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63 Standard Film: Produced for theatrical display at 24fps. |
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65 PAL video: Recorded with a PAL video camera at 50 fields per second. A |
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67 Television was designed to refresh these in alternation as a cheap |
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68 form of analog compression. The human eye supposedly compensates for |
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69 this, but once you understand interlacing you'll learn to see it on TV |
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70 too and never enjoy TV again. Two fields do NOT make a complete frame, |
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74 NTSC Video: Recorded with an NTSC video camera at 59.94 fields per |
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78 Animation: Usually drawn at 24fps, but animation also comes in |
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79 mixed-framerate varieties. |
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82 the most frequently encountered in NTSC regions, and 25 fps in PAL |
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85 Old Film: Various lower framerates. |
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87 Movies consisting of frames are referred to as progressive, while |
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88 those consisting of independent fields are called interlaced, or |
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127 original format. NTSC/PAL conversion is highly destructive and cannot |
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131 When video is stored on DVD, consecutive pairs of fields are grouped |
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134 a way to encode the original progressive frames, and store the number |
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142 proper encoding techniques, and instead produce movies with "hard |
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189 modern video encoders and a bit of pre-codec compression (downscaling |
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190 and denoising), it's possible to achieve very good quality at 700 MB, |
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195 media, and you want maximal quality at all costs, you can encode in |
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196 constant quantizer mode, which will not aim to meet a specific target |
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197 bitrate or filesize but instead use the maximal accuracy encoding for |
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199 achieve significantly smaller file sizes without noticeable loss. |
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206 encode should be a multiple of 16 (in both width and height). This can |
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210 avoid damaging your movie. The normal YUV format, 4:2:0, stores chroma |
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223 As you can see, rows and columns of the image naturally come in pairs. |
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224 Thus your crop offsets and dimensions MUST be even numbers. If they |
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225 are not, the chroma will no longer line up correctly with the luma. In |
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226 theory, it's possible to crop with odd offsets, but it requires |
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227 resampling the chroma which is potentially a lossy operation and not |
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228 supported by the crop filter. |
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251 for interlaced video, your y-offset and height for cropping must be |
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258 whole picture area is used, in order to get accurate crop values. |
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261 filter can help by allowing you to interactively position the crop |
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262 rectangle over your movie. Remember to follow the above divisibility |
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266 black borders and noise, then scale so that the resulting dimensions |
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267 are multiples of 16. This can slightly distort the aspect ratio of |
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290 section on codecs and containers). Other parameters such as scaling, |
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291 cropping, etc. will NOT alter the file size unless you change the |
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292 bitrate as well! |
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294 Bitrate does NOT scale proportional to resolution. That is to say, a |
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310 information in the frequency domain (assuming that the high |
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324 So far we have discussed the difficulty of choosing a bitrate and |
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325 resolution. |
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342 Perhaps the most important factor to choosing the format in which you |
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343 will encode your movie is where you want to be able to play it. |
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344 Usually this involves a tradeoff between quality and features, since |
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350 extensions such as KVCD and XVCD which violate the standards but work |
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351 on many players and deliver higher quality. Modern players are |
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355 functionality. |
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358 users, without them having to install additional software, your |
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359 choices are very limited. The ancient MPEG-1 format with MP2 or PCM |
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361 Interoperability with Windows/Mac also comes into play when deciding |
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362 how to encode and whether to scale to preserve aspect, since popular |
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363 media player applications for these systems do not honor the aspect |
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364 ratio encoding stored in MPEG-4 avi files. |
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370 constraints. Only a small selection of encoded picture sizes & aspect |
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371 ratios are available. If your movie does not meet one of these, you |
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386 quality. |
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392 VCD video is required to be CBR at 1152 kbps. This highly limiting |
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430 to squeeze out the maximum possible quality on a DVD, use |
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464 boundaries in order to minimize the impact on encoding performance. |
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465 Thankfully DVD has sufficiently excessive bitrate that you do not have |
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466 to worry too much about encoding efficiency, but SVCD and VCD are |
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524 lavc Use one of libavcodec's audio encoders |
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525 pcm Uncompressed PCM audio |
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526 copy Do not reencode, just copy compressed frames |
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529 lavc Use one of libavcodec's video encoders |
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530 xvid XviD |
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531 raw Uncompressed video frames |
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532 copy Do not reencode, just copy compressed frames |
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535 Several other video codecs are available, but not recommended. The |
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536 lavc audio and video encoders have additional suboptions to select |
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537 which codec to use within lavc. The syntax is: |
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539 -lavcopts acodec=audio_codec_name |
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540 -lavcopts vcodec=video_codec_name |
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541 |
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542 Your choices for lavc audio are mp2, ac3, and various adpcm formats |
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543 (low efficiency). For lavc video, you have many more choices: |
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545 mpeg1video MPEG-1 video |
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546 mpeg2video MPEG-2 video |
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547 mpeg4 MPEG-4 video, standards-compliant |
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548 msmpeg4 Pre-standard MPEG-4 used by MS (aka DivX3) |
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549 msmpeg4v2 Pre-standard MPEG-4 used by MS (low quality) |
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550 msmpeg4v1 Pre-standard MPEG-4 used by MS (low quality) |
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551 wmv1 Windows Media Video, V1 (aka WMV7) |
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552 wmv2 Windows Media Video, V2 (aka WMV8) |
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553 dvvideo DV video (used by DV cameras) |
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554 mjpeg Motion JPEG |
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555 ljpeg Lossless JPEG |
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556 ffv1 Lossless FFmpeg video codec #1 (slow) |
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557 huffyuv A standard lossless codec |
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558 |
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559 ...and lots more that aren't worth mentioning for most people. |
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563 III.2. Selecting input file or device |
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565 MEncoder can encode from files or directly from a DVD or VCD disc. |
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566 Simply include the filename on the command line to encode from a file, |
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567 or dvd://titlenumber or vcd://tracknumber to encode from a DVD title |
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568 or VCD track. If you have already copied a DVD to your hard drive and |
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569 wish to encode from the copy, you should still use the dvd:// syntax, |
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570 along with -dvd-device followed by the path to the copied DVD root. |
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571 The -dvd-device and -cdrom-device options can also be used to override |
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572 the paths to the device nodes for reading directly from disc, if the |
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573 defaults of /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom do not work on your system. |
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574 |
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575 When encoding from DVD, it is often desirable to select a chapter or |
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576 range of chapters to encode. You can use the -chapter option for this |
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577 purpose. For example, -chapter 1-4 will only encode chapters 1 through |
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578 4 from the DVD. This is especially useful if you will be making a 1400 |
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579 MB encode targetted for two CDs, since you can ensure the split occurs |
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580 exactly at a chapter boundary rather than in the middle of a scene. |
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581 |
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582 If you have a supported TV capture card, you can also encode from the |
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583 TV-in device. Use tv://channelnumber as the filename, and -tv to |
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584 configure various capture settings. DVB input works similarly. |
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586 |
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587 III.3. Loading video filters |
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588 |
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589 Learning how to use MEncoder's video filters is essential to producing |
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590 good encodes. All video processing is performed through the filters -- |
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591 cropping, scaling, color adjustment, noise removal, sharpening, |
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592 deinterlacing, telecine, inverse telecine, and deblocking, just to |
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593 name a few. Along with the vast number of supported input formats, the |
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594 variety of filters available in MEncoder is one of its main advantages |
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595 over other similar programs. |
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596 |
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597 Filters are loaded in a chain using the -vf option: |
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599 -vf filter1=options,filter2=options,... |
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601 Most filters take several numeric options separated by colons, but the |
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602 syntax for options varies from filter to filter, so read the man page |
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603 for details on the filters you wish to use. |
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604 |
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605 Filters operate on the video in the order they are loaded. For |
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606 example, the following chain: |
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607 |
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608 -vf crop=688:464:12:4,scale=640:464 |
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611 corner at (12,4), and then scale the result down to 640x464. |
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613 Certain filters need to be loaded at or near the beginning of the |
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614 filter chain, in order to take advantage of information from the video |
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615 decoder that will be lost or invalidated by other filters. The |
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616 principal examples are pp (postprocessing, only when it is performing |
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617 deblock or dering operations), spp (another postprocessor to remove |
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618 MPEG artifacts), pullup (inverse telecine), and softpulldown (for |
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619 converting soft telecine to hard telecine). |
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621 Advanced topics in filter chains and usage information for specific |
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622 filters will follow in chapters IV and V, as they are needed for the |
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623 topics covered. |
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627 III.4. Notes on A/V sync |
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628 |
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629 MEncoder's audio/video synchronization algorithms were designed with |
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630 the intention of recovering files with broken sync. However they seem |
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631 to cause unnecessary skipping and duplication of frames, and possibly |
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632 slight A/V desync, when used with proper input. It is therefore |
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633 recommended that you switch to basic A/V sync with the -mc 0 option, |
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634 or put this in your ~/.mplayer/mencoder config file, as long as you |
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635 are only working with good sources (DVD, TV capture, high quality |
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636 MPEG-4 rips, etc) and not broken ASF/RM/MOV files. |
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639 duplication, you can use both -mc 0 and -noskip. This will prevent ALL |
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642 input file has variable framerate! Therefore, using -noskip is not in |
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643 general recommended. |
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645 The so-called "three-pass" encoding which MEncoder supports has been |
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646 reported to cause A/V desync. This will definitely happen if it is |
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647 used in conjunction with certain filters, therefore, it is now |
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648 recommended NOT to use three-pass mode. This feature is only left for |
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649 compatibility purposes and for expert users who understand when it is |
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650 safe to use and when it is not. If you have never heard of three-pass |
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651 mode before, forget that we even mentioned it! |
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653 There have also been reports of A/V desync when encoding from stdin |
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654 with MEncoder. Do not do this! Always use a file or CD/DVD/etc device |
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663 As long as your input video is progressive (see section I.1), |
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666 Let's finally see a few examples: |
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671 128 kbit/sec average-bitrate MP3 audio |
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676 The crop size was presumably obtained by using the cropdetect filter |
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677 in MPlayer, or experimenting first with crop rectangles in MPlayer. |
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679 would be preferable to adjust the playback speed to match the original |
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688 900 kbit/sec MPEG-4 video |
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689 Keeping the original AC3 audio |
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695 -ofps option to adjust the output framerate. Unless you tell it |
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696 otherwise, MEncoder takes its output framerate from the input |
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697 framerate. This is reported as 29.97 fps (actually 30000/1001), or |
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707 recommendations to use -ofps 23.976, but this is wrong. MEncoder will |
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710 always use plenty of precision. |
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715 IV.2. Two-pass encoding |
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717 The complexity (and thus the number of bits) required to compress the |
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718 frames of a movie can vary greatly from one scene to another. Modern |
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719 video encoders can adjust to these needs as they go and vary the |
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720 bitrate. However, they cannot exceed the requested average bitrate for |
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721 long stretches of time, because they do not know the bitrate needs of |
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722 future scenes. |
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723 |
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724 Two-pass encoding solves this problem by encoding the movie twice. |
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725 During the first pass, statistics are generated regarding the number |
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726 of bits used by each frame and the quantization level (quality) at |
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727 which it was encoded. Then, when the second pass begins, the encoder |
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728 reads these statistics and redistributes the bits from frames where |
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729 they are in excess to frames that are suffering from low quality. |
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731 In order for the process to work properly, the encoder should be given |
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732 exactly the same sequence of frames during both passes. This means |
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733 that the same filters must be used, the same encoder parameters must |
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734 be used (with the possible exception of bitrate), and the same frame |
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735 drops and duplications (if any) must take place. |
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736 |
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737 In theory it's possible to use -oac pcm or -oac copy during the first |
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738 pass to avoid spending time encoding the audio. However, this can |
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739 result in slight variations in which frames get dropped or duplicated, |
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740 so it may be preferable to encode the audio during the first pass as |
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741 well as the second. This also allows you to examine the final audio |
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742 bitrate and filesize, and to adjust the audio or video bitrate |
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743 slightly between passes if you don't meet your target size. |
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744 |
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745 Here is an example: |
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746 |
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747 Encoding from an existing AVI file |
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748 500 kbit/sec MPEG-4 video |
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749 96 kbit/sec average-bitrate MP3 audio |
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750 |
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751 mencoder bar.avi -vf scale=448:336 -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts \ |
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752 abr:br=96 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500:vpass=1 |
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754 mencoder bar.avi -vf scale=448:336 -mc 0 -oac mp3lame -lameopts \ |
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755 abr:br=96 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500:vpass=2 |
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756 |
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757 If you do not want to overwrite the output from the first pass when |
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758 you begin the second, you can use the -o option to choose a different |
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759 output filename. Note the addition of the vpass option in this |
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760 example. If vpass is not specified, single-pass encoding is performed. |
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761 If vpass=1, a log file is written with statistics from the first pass. |
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762 If vpass=2, the log file is read and the second pass is encoded based |
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763 on those statistics. If you are short on disk space or don't want the |
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764 extra disk wear from writing the file twice, you can use -o /dev/null |
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765 during the first pass. However, sometimes it is beneficial to watch |
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766 the first-pass file before beginning the second pass to make sure |
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767 nothing went wrong in the encoding. |
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768 |
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769 Next, an example using XviD instead of libavcodec: |
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770 |
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771 Encoding from an existing AVI file |
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772 500 kbit/sec MPEG-4 video |
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773 Copying the existing audio stream unmodified |
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774 |
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775 mencoder foo.avi -vf scale=320:240 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc xvid \ |
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776 -xvidencopts bitrate=400:pass=1 |
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777 |
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778 mencoder foo.avi -vf scale=320:240 -mc 0 -oac copy -ovc xvid \ |
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779 -xvidencopts bitrate=400:pass=2 |
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780 |
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781 The options used are slightly different, but the process is otherwise |
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782 the same. |
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784 |
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786 |
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787 IV.3. Encoding interlaced video |
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788 |
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789 If the movie you want to encode is interlaced (NTSC video or PAL |
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791 not. While deinterlacing will make your movie usable on progressive |
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792 scan displays such a computer monitors and projectors, it comes at a |
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793 cost: the field rate of 50 or 59.94 fields per second is halved to 25 |
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794 or 29.97 frames per second, and roughly half the information in your |
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795 movie will be lost during scenes with significant motion. |
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796 |
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797 Therefore, if you are encoding for high quality archival purposes, it |
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798 is recommended not to deinterlace. You can always deinterlace the |
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811 unless you take special care to operate them a field at a time, and |
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812 they may damage the video if used incorrectly. |
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816 mencoder capture.avi -mc 0 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ |
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819 Note the ilmv and ildct options. |