Tony Smolar wrote: > Greetings, > > I have used mencoder for a long time to create DVD-compatible mpegs. I > had been using 1.0pre7try2 and was getting over 70-100fps while encoding. > > Then I upgraded to a more recent Linux distribution, and 1.0pre7try2 no > longer worked. I built 1.0rc2 and the most recent version from svn (as > of 2 days ago) > > Now, I get a really slow 6 or 7fps while encoding with both of those > versions, it takes forever to encode anything. > > I'm not able to compile 1.0pre7try2, but I was able to compile > 1.0pre8, that version does encode fast again. 1.0rc1 seems to be the > first version to have this problem for me. > > I've tried searching the lists, but I haven't been able to find anyone > having the same problem. > > The command line I'm using looks something like this: (the input is an > mpg because it's from a Tivo, and I'm converting it to a dvd-friendly > format) > > /opt2/mplayer-1.0pre8/bin/mencoder somevid.mpg -of mpeg -oac lavc -ovc > lavc -lavcopts > acodec=ac3:vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vbitrate=2500:keyint=18:aspect=4/3:vpass=1:threads=2 > -mpegopts format=dvd -vf lavcdeint,scale=704:480,harddup -af volume=+5dB > -mc 0 -srate 48000 -ofps 30000/1001 -o /dev/null notation has changed, vbitrate used to be in kb, not anymore, so changing vrc_buf_size=1835 to vrc_buf_size=1835000 and vbitrate=2500 to vbitrate=2500000 will probably solve your problem. You did get a lot of this messages rc buffer underflow didn't you > > If anyone has any ideas or things for me to try to get more > information, let me know. My processor is an AMD X2 3800+, and I am > running Fedora. > > Thanks, > Tony Smolar > > > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users