mencoder-svn

[curaga]

Title:          mencoder-svn.tcz
Description:    Mencoder universal video encoder
Version:        SVN-30660
Author:         Various
Original-site:  http://mplayerhq.hu
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:      3.2M
Extension_by:   Curaga
Comments:       Xvid, x264, faac, lame enabled.
Change-log:     
Current:        2010/02/20 Original

And this ends todays video-related streak. Tune in next time, on the same channel.

[curaga]

Here's something done on these:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/8669672/hello.avi.html

Used the updated Qemu to boot MC-2.9rc4 with KVM, captured to png with xvidcap, encoded to xvid with mencoder and muxed to mkv with mkvmerge.
Or, the best quality for the smallest size for this codec . The mkv is renamed to .avi because .mkv was somehow a disallowed extension there.

[tinypoodle]

Apart from myself appearing to be unable to download mentioned .avi-file...
Are there any particular reasons with xvidcap to capture to .png first and
then use a different app to encode to a video format, versus choosing one
of the available video output formats in xvidcap and capture to a video
directly?

[curaga]

I simply prefer to do so.

- less cpu overhead not needing to encode while capturing
- more control of encoding parameters
- lossless editing at frame level if desired

[tinypoodle]

Ah, thank you very much curaga, that's making it pretty clear.
Had just been wondering, as until now i had always been using xvidcap's builtin abilities (respectively
those of whatever dependencies it comes with anyway).