[MPlayer-users] Choosing the size of a divx to be encoded

[Attila Kinali]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:18:13 +0100
GianCarlo De Pol <giancarlo.depol at pd.infn.it> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> This is meant to be a user-to-user question... I do not mean to bug the
> develpers.I have been playing with Mencoder for a while; I have ripped a
> fw dvd's, with some different divx4opts, just to experiment  a bit.Now I
> see that I can reliably decide the final zize, in 2-pass encoding, with
> the br=xxx (and some arithmetics to find xxx).My question is, What is
> the ideal size to encode ? If I encdode at the dvd full size, the
> playback seems to be very heavy for Mplayer; indeed, it manages to
> playback, but not to postprocess, -pp 1 already gets audio out of sync,

If you really encode full size DVD as divx, you'll not need any pp
as long you dont use a too low bit rate (considered a bad encode)


			Attila Kinali

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