Comments on: Linux/*nix Video -> H.264 with Mencoder HOWTO

By: Cristian Rusu

Cristian Rusu — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:11:00 +0000

What about a guide on setting up prerequisite?
All that tools may not be on the server and a step by step setup may be useful

Thanks

By: elchubi

elchubi — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:18:29 +0000

Reservoir Dogs DVD is not “pure progressive” from mencoder help–> About the performance of pullup: It is safe to use pullup (along with softskip ) on progressive video, and is usually a good idea unless the source has been definitively verified to be entirely progressive. The performace loss is small for most cases. On a bare-minimum encode, pullup causes MEncoder to be 50% slower. Adding sound processing and advanced lavcopts overshadows that difference, bringing the performance decrease of using pullup down to 2%

By: feld

feld — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:38:51 +0000

I like your guide a lot but I can’t use your first command as-is. It tries to open the fifo too soon so I had to modify it as such:

faac –mpeg-vers 4 -q 100 -P -R 48000 -C 6 -I 5,6 -X audiodump.pcm -o audio.aac & sleep 2 && mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device ./temp/VIDEO_TS/ -aid 128 -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:nowaveheader:fast -channels 6