Mencoder Question

[Maikeru-sama]

I have used Mencoder to go MKV H264->AVI. Eventually, I will use CCE and AVISynth to convert to an MPEG-2 and place it on a DVD.

For H264 Files, I am normally forced to use AllToAvi. I want to know how to use Mencoder to accomplish this task without AllToAvi.

Here is the specs for my TEST MKV:


For testing, I used Mencoder to re-encode to AVI and the command line is below:
<command line>
"C:\source\exe\mencoder\mplayer\mencoder.exe" "C:\Movies\Test\input.mkv" -aid 0 -o "C:\Movies\Test\output.avi" -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:turbo -vf scale=640:427 -oac copy
</command line>

The question I have is I specified MPEG4 video codec in mencoder but when I looked at the specs in GSpot, the video codec of the rendered AVI file said the following:


Why doesn't the video codec say MPEG4?

[disturbed1]

FMP4 is mpeg 4, like Xvid is mpeg 4, as divx, h264 ....... If you wanted Xvid, define -ovc xvid, then set the correct -xvidencopts. Or use the -ffourcc setting to force the desired fourcc (DX50).

See this for -xvidencopts http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-xvid.html#menc-feat-xvid-example-settings

[Maikeru-sama]

Thanks for the reply and clearing things up.

I wanted to use lavc.

[Maikeru-sama]

Another mencoder question

What does the lameopts option "mode" mean? I have seen it set to 0 and 3 but could not find what it means.

Ex: oac -mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0

[45tripp]

mode=<0-3>
(default: auto)
0 stereo
1 joint-stereo
2 dualchannel
3 mono