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