Re: [dvd::rip] Video bitrate change has no effect

On 22/08/06 23:06:15, Jörn Reder wrote:
> 
> lynx.abraxas@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Sat Aug 19 15:26:27 2006 Executing command: mkdir -m 0775 -p 
> > '/home/serpent/dvd::rip/hp4/tmp' && cd /home/serpent/dvd::rip/hp4/tmp && 
> > dr_exec 
> > transcode -H 10 -a 0 -x vob -i /home/serpent/dvd::rip/hp4/vob/001/ -w 
> > 1673,50 -b 
> > 0,1,4 -s 1.319 --a52_drc_off -f 25 -Y 48,0,48,0 -B 27,10,8 -R 1 -y 
> > xvid4,ogg -m 
> > /home/serpent/dvd::rip/hp4/avi/001/hp4-001-00.ogm --psu_mode --nav_seek 
> > /home/serpent/dvd::rip/hp4/tmp/hp4-001-nav.log --no_split  -o /dev/null 
> > --print_status 20 && echo DVDRIP_SUCCESS
> 
> Ok, you're using the xvid export filter here, probably xvid can't 
> achieve a higher bitrate, because it can't get more out of the video 
> stream resp. isn't able to do a weaker compression. Sometimes I have the
> same problem with xvid encodings - for some material it looks there is 
> an upper bitrate limit which can't be exceeded.
> 
> I suggest to try the same with ffmpeg/mpeg4.

After  hacking  ffmpeg  fabs to abs I got it working and it does a better job.
While doing this I started wondering why You don't transcode and mencoder?  Is
transcode better or easier to implement?
Also  I read loads about x264/h264. Which codec do You recommend for video and
audio and wich container? There is so much out there I  can't  think  straight
anymore.  I  tried x264 with mencoder which can do the two passes contrairy to
transcode. But I was pretty disappointed. It took long,  yield  a  pretty  big
file and looks dreadfull. All that could be because of some mistakes I made.

Well  anyway  thanks  for  dvd::rip.  The functionallity for text-sub-creation
would be great too. (I once did a littel patch for subtitleripper to just  rip
forced subs)

Regards
Lynx