Comments on: Mencoding movies http://mgeisler.net/2006/04/mencoding-movies/ Adventures with Computers Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-bleeding By: Martin Geisler http://mgeisler.net/2006/04/mencoding-movies/#comment-1222 Martin Geisler Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:50:33 +0000 http://mgeisler.net/?p=631#comment-1222 <p>Ahh... right, of course :-) I was just about to say that the "/s" is implicit, but then again so is the difference between "Kib" and "Kb"... :-D</p> Ahh… right, of course :-) I was just about to say that the “/s” is implicit, but then again so is the difference between “Kib” and “Kb”… :-D

]]> By: Janus http://mgeisler.net/2006/04/mencoding-movies/#comment-1221 Janus Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:15:19 +0000 http://mgeisler.net/?p=631#comment-1221 <p>Only 256kb upstream? How are you ever going to squeeze 23 MiB into that space :p</p> <p>Sorry, had to make a rant since you so carefully wrote MiB instead of MB -- you just missed kbps or kb/s instead of kb ;)</p> Only 256kb upstream? How are you ever going to squeeze 23 MiB into that space :p

Sorry, had to make a rant since you so carefully wrote MiB instead of MB — you just missed kbps or kb/s instead of kb ;)

]]> By: Martin Geisler http://mgeisler.net/2006/04/mencoding-movies/#comment-1219 Martin Geisler Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:28:29 +0000 http://mgeisler.net/?p=631#comment-1219 <p>Thanks for the tip about H.264, I've never heard about it before but I'll try it the next time.</p> <p>I'm surpriced that an MPEG4 encoded file isn't an MPEG file? About the file extension then I don't care since I don't use Mac or Windows :-)</p> <p>But why is MPlayer not usable? It decodes just about everything and outputs it on just about anything...</p> Thanks for the tip about H.264, I’ve never heard about it before but I’ll try it the next time.

I’m surpriced that an MPEG4 encoded file isn’t an MPEG file? About the file extension then I don’t care since I don’t use Mac or Windows :-)

But why is MPlayer not usable? It decodes just about everything and outputs it on just about anything…

]]> By: Dan V. P. Christiansen http://mgeisler.net/2006/04/mencoding-movies/#comment-1218 Dan V. P. Christiansen Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:30:52 +0000 http://mgeisler.net/?p=631#comment-1218 <p>You should be aware that the resulting movie will be an AVI file and not an MPEG program stream, which is what usually is signified by the .mpg extension. Most Linux players do determine the format by simply trying the various demuxers until one succeeds. However, Mac and Windows players generally trust the file extension.</p> <p>Also, you should consider H.264 if you want good compression. It is one of the best, if not the best, video codecs out there. Also, you should be aware that there are many flags to mencoder which allow you to increase the quality of the encoded output. MPlayer/MEncoder is one of the least usable pieces of software I have seen...</p> You should be aware that the resulting movie will be an AVI file and not an MPEG program stream, which is what usually is signified by the .mpg extension. Most Linux players do determine the format by simply trying the various demuxers until one succeeds. However, Mac and Windows players generally trust the file extension.

Also, you should consider H.264 if you want good compression. It is one of the best, if not the best, video codecs out there. Also, you should be aware that there are many flags to mencoder which allow you to increase the quality of the encoded output. MPlayer/MEncoder is one of the least usable pieces of software I have seen…

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