Encoding Notes

Various notes floating around my hard drive related to encoding/transcoding:

dead_like_me_encoding.txt

1. Open input DiVX file
2. Quick Presets: DVD ffmpeg
3. In bitrate calculator, set size (400 mb), then click rate
4. In Tools, uncheck Author as DVD (VIDEO_TS) and ensure Keep elementary streams is checked
5. ...etc...

   Change audio format?  WAV?  AIFF?

6. Encode button

encoding.txt

/Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e03.hdtv-lol.avi -y -threads 2 -map 0.0:0.0 -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 4:3 -b 771 -s 720x480 -r ntsc -g 12 -me epzs -qmin 2 -qmax 20 -hq -acodec mp2 -ab 128 -ar 48000 -ac 1 -map 0.1:0.1 -benchmark /Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e03.hdtv-lol.avi.ff.mpg
/Applications/ffmpegX.app//Contents/Resources/ffmpeg 
    -i /Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e03.hdtv-lol.avi 
    -y 
    -threads 2 
    -map 0.0:0.0 
    -target ntsc-dvd 
    -aspect 4:3 
    -b 771 
    -s 720x480 
    -r ntsc 
    -g 12 
    -me epzs 
    -qmin 2 
    -qmax 20 
    -hq 
    -acodec mp2 
    -ab 128 
    -ar 48000 
    -ac 1 
    -map 0.1:0.1 
    -benchmark 
    /Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e03.hdtv-lol.avi.ff.mpg




 2140  ??  S      0:00.01 sh -c '/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder' '/Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e04.hdtv-lol.avi' -ovc copy -oac copy -frames 1 -o /dev/null 2>&1 | grep 'VIDEO:\|audiocodec:'
/Library/Application Support/ffmpegX/mencoder 
    /Users/music/Desktop/BitTorrent/Dead Like Me/Season 2/dead.like.me.s02e04.hdtv-lol.avi 
    -ovc copy 
    -oac copy 
    -frames 1 
    -o /dev/null

Video stream:  462.449 kbit/s  (57806 bps)  size: 2411 bytes  0.042 secs  1 frames