Mencoder sucks, Star Trek New Voyages rocks

Erling Jacobsen - Mencoder sucks, Star Trek New Voyages rocks

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July 24th, 2005

03:31 pm

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Mencoder sucks, Star Trek New Voyages rocks
This week I downloaded my first 2 files from the bittorrent P2P-network: The DVD-images for the "Star Trek - New Voyages" episodes 1 and 2. I had been trying to use mplayer and mencoder to convert the (much smaller) WMV-files to MPEG and so create my own DVDs, but had to give up. I don't see why mplayer can play the WMV's perfectly, but cannot convert to MPEG, without the sound becoming horribly out-of-sync. Sigh.

Anyway, I liked the DVD's I downloaded. And yes, I left the client running, so others could download from me.

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From:	bigjohnsf
Date:	July 24th, 2005 03:47 pm (UTC)

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WMV sucks, but the files compress a lot. If one needs that level of compression, (using mom&dad's dial-up), then realvideo offers a staggering level of compression while yielding remarkably watchable results... (God, I'm jaded and sarcastic.) The cognoscenti use a program called Gordian Knot to transcode DVD->AVI, using the xvid codec, for a result of about 7mb per minute in widescreen.

For transcoding AVI->MPG or WMV->MPG, I prefer a program called TMPGEnc, which has a free version if you google for it... sometimes you need codecs that are best obtained in the klite codec pack.

I watch about five hours a week of UK soap operas using these tools. Right now, I'm burning them onto VCD, but I'm experimenting with DVD, though right now I'm having issues with DVD authoring.

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