How do you I do a high quality video encodes with mencoder (xvid/mp3)?
Well There’re 2 ways so lets see : If you want the highest quailty without caring about size : /mnt/tmp -> l Bill\ Gates\ Failure.mpg -rw-r–r– 1 oneofone users 26M Jan 7 18:05 Bill Gates Failure.mpg /mnt/tmp -> export XVIDOPTS=”me_quality=6:chroma_me:chroma_opt:trellis:max_key_interval=300:vhq=4″ /mnt/tmp -> xvidpass1 $XVIDOPTS “Bill Gates Failure.mpg” MEncoder dev-CVS-050109-00:59-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team —cut— Video stream: 1401.710 kbit/s (175213 bps) size: 18830952 bytes 107.474 secs 3223 frames The value 99.99dB is a special value and represents the upper range limit xvid: Min PSNR y : 39.62 dB, u : 46.56 dB, v : 47.19 dB, in frame 2178 xvid: Average PSNR y : 43.91 dB, u : 48.28 dB, v : 49.08 dB, for 3216 frames xvid: Max PSNR y : 52.63 dB, u : 56.58 dB, v : 56.72 dB, in frame 0 /mnt/tmp -> xvid-log-analyzer.pl 747 Number of frames : 3214 Frames == b : 2097 / i : 18 / p : 1099 /mnt/tmp -> mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts $XVIDOPTS:pass=2:bitrate=747 \ -oac mp3lame -la