comparison DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt @ 10405:a5785a0b9ee1

-dvd -> dvd:// and -vcd -> vcd://

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And now comes the question: how do I chose my encoding parameters
so that the results will be good? First let's take a look at a
typical mencoder line:

mencoder -dvd 1 -o /dev/null -oac copy -ovc lavc \
  -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:\
  vlelim=-4:vcelim=9:lumi_mask=0.05:dark_mask=0.01:vpass=1 \
  -vf crop=716:572:2:2,scale=640:480

Phew, all those parameters! Which ones should I change? NEVER leave

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4)  I would  recommend  using the  Ogg  Vorbis audio  codec  with the  .ogm
container format. Ogg  Vorbis compress audio better than MP3.  On a typical
old,  mono-only audio  stream, a  45 kbits/s  Vorbis stream  is ok.  How to
extract  & compress  an audio  stream  from a  ripped DVD  (mplayer -dvd  1
-dumpstream) :

rm -f audiodump.pcm ; mkfifo -m 600 audiodump.pcm
mplayer -quiet -vc null -vo null -aid 128 -ao pcm -nowaveheader stream.dump &
oggenc --raw --raw-bits=16 --raw-chan=2 --raw-rate=48000 -q 1 -o audio-us.ogg

from vobsubs. OCR  *nix softwares seems either not suited  to the task, not
powerful enough or both. I'm extracting the vobsub subtitles and simply use
them with the .ogm

/ .avi :
1) rip the DVD to harddisk with "mplayer -dvd 1 -dumpstream"
2) mount the DVD and copy the .ifo file
2) extract all vobsubs to one single file with something like :

for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ; do \
    mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o /dev/null -sid $f -vobsubout sous-titres

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And now comes the question: how do I chose my encoding parameters
so that the results will be good? First let's take a look at a
typical mencoder line:

mencoder dvd://1 -o /dev/null -oac copy -ovc lavc \
  -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:\
  vlelim=-4:vcelim=9:lumi_mask=0.05:dark_mask=0.01:vpass=1 \
  -vf crop=716:572:2:2,scale=640:480

Phew, all those parameters! Which ones should I change? NEVER leave

viewed fullscreen.

4)  I would  recommend  using the  Ogg  Vorbis audio  codec  with the  .ogm
container format. Ogg  Vorbis compress audio better than MP3.  On a typical
old,  mono-only audio  stream, a  45 kbits/s  Vorbis stream  is ok.  How to
extract  & compress  an audio  stream  from a  ripped DVD  (mplayer dvd:// 1
-dumpstream) :

rm -f audiodump.pcm ; mkfifo -m 600 audiodump.pcm
mplayer -quiet -vc null -vo null -aid 128 -ao pcm -nowaveheader stream.dump &
oggenc --raw --raw-bits=16 --raw-chan=2 --raw-rate=48000 -q 1 -o audio-us.ogg

from vobsubs. OCR  *nix softwares seems either not suited  to the task, not
powerful enough or both. I'm extracting the vobsub subtitles and simply use
them with the .ogm

/ .avi :
1) rip the DVD to harddisk with "mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream"
2) mount the DVD and copy the .ifo file
2) extract all vobsubs to one single file with something like :

for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ; do \
    mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o /dev/null -sid $f -vobsubout sous-titres