On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 22:39, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hi all, > I had an interesting experience yesterday. > I created a MPEG4 movie with mencoder (which comes with MPlayer) from a > VCD. > The movie was around 1 hour long, and the final size of the MPEG4 file > was 330 megs. > Cool!!
were you using the bundled lavc or some other codec? what vbitrate did you use? i have found that "vbitrate=600" produces files approximately 60% of the original in size, while not compromising too much in quality. fits whole movies (of reasonable length) onto single cd-s comfortably. i recently converted almost my whole movie collection with mencoder, and freed up tons of space :-) > 1. Windows XP (setup for "best performance) - Windows Media Player 8. > Lost Audio Video sync as soon as it started, > 2. Windows XP (setup for "best performance) - DivX Player 2.0 Alpha 3 > (from DivX networks) > Lost Audio Video sync within a few minutes > 3. GNU/Linux (RH 8.0) - Mplayer (cvs version - updated yesterday) > Playback was flawless throughout (and Evolution,OOo, Mozilla, GNOME2 > was running in the background) for some time now mplayer has had playback capabilities superior to anything on the M$ platform, as far as my experience goes. but in this particular example codec difference may have been the culprit. libavcodec (included in the mplayer source) is a high-quality compressor, better than DivX4 or DivX5 or "DivX ;-)", one of which is probably being used by DivX player for windows and WMP. try to find out what the windows codec is, and then encode in linux with that, for a true comparison test. however, i'm prepared to bet my nickel that the results will still favour mplayer. - t. -- cogito, ergo es. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
