[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new mpeg muxer

[Trent Piepho]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> ok, at some point someone should make a guide for how to encode
> (compliant) vcd/svcd/dvd with mencoder's new mpeg muxer. a few
> questions i have right away:
> 
> - is there any way to make the muxer handle soft telecine for you
> 
> - what encoder options do you use to make compliant mpeg1/2 video for
>   vcd/svcd/dvd? so far i've had luck, but the players i've tested

I tried to use mencoder and lavc to create (X)SVCDs that I could play on my
DVD player.  I normally use mpeg2enc from the mjpegtools package, which works,
but lavc is faster.  I used the mplex program from mjegtools to work around
mencoder's broken mpeg muxer.  There were still two problems that kept it from
working.

The first is that I couldn't figure out a way to get soft-telecin, and trying
to encode 24fps on NTSC without soft-telecin is pointless.

The second is that the rate control, specifically vrc_maxrate, doesn't appear
to work.  No matter what rate control options I used, the encoding would have
peak bitrates much too high for my DVD player to play from CD-RW media.