[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: vdr2divx 1.5.3 is out

[Robert Kasunic <robert@kasunic.de>]

Hi Gregoire,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:41:41PM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> mplayer has really many options... I would like to find the "good"
> options to convert 00*.vdr in 3 pass to divx ;-))

at first a warning. I *don't* know vdr2divx, but I too use mencoder to
convert movies recorded with vdr to divx. The following options work
fine for me:

1st pass:
cat 00*.vdr | mencoder -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=192:q=0 -o frameno.avi -

Take the calculated bitrate from this pass for the second and third
pass.

2nd pass:
cat 00*.vdr | mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$bitrate:vhq:vpass=1 \
  -oac copy -vop scale=x:y -sws 2 -o output.avi -

3rd pass:
cat 00*.vdr | mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$bitrate:vhq:vpass=2 \
  -oac copy -vop scale=x:y -sws 2 -o output.avi -

Adopt the parameters for scale according to your needs and the movie
your are going to convert.

YMMV. HTH.
Robert