comparison DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml @ 16383:3cc0d81806bf

In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track. Added a paragraph that explains why, and nuked all the occurences of "-nosound".

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<para>
<application>MEncoder</application>'s audio/video synchronization
algorithms were designed with the intention of recovering files with
broken sync.
However, in some cases they can cause unnecessary skipping and duplication of
frames, and possibly slight A/V desync, when used with proper input.
Therefore, you may have to switch to basic A/V sync with
the <option>-mc 0</option> option, or put this in your
<systemitem>~/.mplayer/mencoder</systemitem> config file, as long as
you are only working with good sources (DVD, TV capture, high quality
MPEG-4 rips, etc) and not broken ASF/RM/MOV files.

  sound so that more bits can be spent on the video.
  Most people choose to compress audio with either MP3 or Vorbis audio
  codecs.
  While the latter is a very space-efficient codec, MP3 is better supported
  by hardware players, although this trend is changing.
</para>

<para>
  First of all, you will have to convert the DVD sound into a WAV file that the
  audio codec can use as input.

  <option>-ofps 24000/1001</option>. Otherwise, <application>MEncoder</application>
  will try to encode at 30000/1001 fps and will duplicate frames.
</para>

<para>
  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
</para>

<para>
  It is often the case, however, that a video that looks progressive
  actually has very short parts of telecine mixed in. Unless you are

  using <option>mbd=2</option> is strongly recommended
  <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[2] </link> because it
  will encode macroblocks as non-interlaced in places where there is
  no motion. Note that <option>-ofps</option> is NOT needed here.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts ildct:ilme:mbd=2</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  Use a deinterlacing filter before encoding. There are several of
  these filters available to choose from, each with its own advantages
  and disadvantages. Consult <option>mplayer -pphelp</option> to see

  various filters. Again, the framerate is not changing, so no
  <option>-ofps</option>. Also, deinterlacing should be done after
  cropping <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and
  before scaling.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf pp=lb -ovc lavc</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  Unfortunately, this option is buggy with
  <application>MEncoder</application>; it ought to work well with
  <application>MEncoder G2</application>, but that is not here yet. You

  <option>tfields</option> you
  <emphasis role="bold">have to</emphasis> specify both
  <option>-fps</option> and <option>-ofps</option> to be twice the
  framerate of your original source.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf tfields=2 -ovc lavc -fps 60000/1001 -ofps 60000/1001</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  If you plan on downscaling dramatically, you can extract and encode
  only one of the two fields. Of course, you will lose half the vertical
  resolution, but if you plan on downscaling to at most 1/2 of the

  progressive 30000/1001 frames per second file. The procedure is to use
  <option>-vf field</option>, then crop
  <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and scale
  appropriately. Remember that you will have to adjust the scale to
  compensate for the vertical resolution being halved.
  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf field=0 -ovc lavc</screen>
  </para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-mixedpt">

  else <application>MEncoder</application> will crash.
  <option>pullup</option> is, however, the cleanest and most
  accurate method available for encoding both telecine and
  &quot;mixed progressive and telecine&quot;.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf pullup,softskip -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
  </para>


  </listitem>
  <listitem><para>

  a video and makes the entire file telecined. If we follow
  softpulldown with either <option>detc</option> or
  <option>ivtc</option>, the final result will be entirely
  progressive. <option>-ofps 24000/1001</option> is needed.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -nosound -vf softpulldown,ivtc=1 -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
  </para>
  </listitem>

<listitem><para>
  I have not used <option>-vf filmdint</option> myself, but here is what

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<para>
<application>MEncoder</application>'s audio/video synchronization
algorithms were designed with the intention of recovering files with
broken sync.
However, in some cases they can cause unnecessary skipping and duplication of
frames, and possibly slight A/V desync, when used with proper input
(off course, A/V sync issues apply only if you process or copy the
audio track while transcoding the video, which is strongly encouraged).
Therefore, you may have to switch to basic A/V sync with
the <option>-mc 0</option> option, or put this in your
<systemitem>~/.mplayer/mencoder</systemitem> config file, as long as
you are only working with good sources (DVD, TV capture, high quality
MPEG-4 rips, etc) and not broken ASF/RM/MOV files.

  sound so that more bits can be spent on the video.
  Most people choose to compress audio with either MP3 or Vorbis audio
  codecs.
  While the latter is a very space-efficient codec, MP3 is better supported
  by hardware players, although this trend is changing.
</para>

<para>
  Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> use <option>-nosound</option> when encoding
  a file with audio, even if you will be encoding and muxing audio
  separately later.
  Though it may work in ideal cases, using <option>-nosound</option> is
  likely to hide some problems in your encoding command line setting.
  In other words, having a soundtrack during your encode assures you that,
  provided you don't messages such as
  <quote>Too many audio packets in the buffer</quote>, you will be able
  to get proper sync.
</para>

<para>
  You need to have <application>MEncoder</application> process the sound.
  You can for example copy the orignal soundtrack during the encode with
  <option>-oac copy</option> or convert it to a "light" 4 kHz mono WAV
  PCM with <option>-oac pcm -channels 1 -srate 4000</option>.
  otherwise, in some cases, it will generate a video file that won't sync
  with the audio.
  Such cases are when the number of video frames in the source file do
  not match up to the total length of audio frames or whenever there
  are discontinuities/splices where there are missing or extra audio frames.
  The correct way to handle this kind of problem is to insert silence or
  cut audio at these points.
  However <application>MPlayer</application> cannot do that, so if you
  demux the AC3 and encode it with a separate app (or dump it to PCM with
  <application>MPlayer</application>), the splices will be left incorrect
  and the only way to correct them is to drop/dup video frames at the
  splice.
  As long as <application>MEncoder</application> sees the audio when it's
  encoding the video, it can do this dropping/duping (which is usually ok
  since it takes place at full black/scenechange, but if
  <application>MEncoder</application> can't see the audio, it will just
  process all frames as-is and they won't fit the final audio stream when
  you for example merge your audio and video track into a Matroska file.
</para>

<para>
  First of all, you will have to convert the DVD sound into a WAV file that the
  audio codec can use as input.

  <option>-ofps 24000/1001</option>. Otherwise, <application>MEncoder</application>
  will try to encode at 30000/1001 fps and will duplicate frames.
</para>

<para>
  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
</para>

<para>
  It is often the case, however, that a video that looks progressive
  actually has very short parts of telecine mixed in. Unless you are

  using <option>mbd=2</option> is strongly recommended
  <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[2] </link> because it
  will encode macroblocks as non-interlaced in places where there is
  no motion. Note that <option>-ofps</option> is NOT needed here.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts ildct:ilme:mbd=2</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  Use a deinterlacing filter before encoding. There are several of
  these filters available to choose from, each with its own advantages
  and disadvantages. Consult <option>mplayer -pphelp</option> to see

  various filters. Again, the framerate is not changing, so no
  <option>-ofps</option>. Also, deinterlacing should be done after
  cropping <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and
  before scaling.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -vf pp=lb -ovc lavc</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  Unfortunately, this option is buggy with
  <application>MEncoder</application>; it ought to work well with
  <application>MEncoder G2</application>, but that is not here yet. You

  <option>tfields</option> you
  <emphasis role="bold">have to</emphasis> specify both
  <option>-fps</option> and <option>-ofps</option> to be twice the
  framerate of your original source.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -vf tfields=2 -ovc lavc -fps 60000/1001 -ofps 60000/1001</screen>
  </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
  If you plan on downscaling dramatically, you can extract and encode
  only one of the two fields. Of course, you will lose half the vertical
  resolution, but if you plan on downscaling to at most 1/2 of the

  progressive 30000/1001 frames per second file. The procedure is to use
  <option>-vf field</option>, then crop
  <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link> and scale
  appropriately. Remember that you will have to adjust the scale to
  compensate for the vertical resolution being halved.
  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -vf field=0 -ovc lavc</screen>
  </para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-encode-mixedpt">

  else <application>MEncoder</application> will crash.
  <option>pullup</option> is, however, the cleanest and most
  accurate method available for encoding both telecine and
  &quot;mixed progressive and telecine&quot;.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -vf pullup,softskip -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
  </para>


  </listitem>
  <listitem><para>

  a video and makes the entire file telecined. If we follow
  softpulldown with either <option>detc</option> or
  <option>ivtc</option>, the final result will be entirely
  progressive. <option>-ofps 24000/1001</option> is needed.

  <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -avc copy -vf softpulldown,ivtc=1 -ovc lavc -ofps 24000/1001</screen>
  </para>
  </listitem>

<listitem><para>
  I have not used <option>-vf filmdint</option> myself, but here is what