Help For Anyone Tweaking FFMPEG to Encode to XVID

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I was playing around for a while and had a few issues getting FFMPEG to work. I though I'd share this in case anyone else was struggling as I was with files that were too large or aspect ratios that were weird. I then use Virtualdub to delete the adverts afterwards and this only takes a few seconds as it does not need to reencode the files.

I use Mencoder instead of ffmpeg as I can't get ffmpeg to create constant bitrate mp3s and average bitrate mp3s screw up the sound syncing when deleting parts of the file. I just renamed the original ffmpeg folder in the gbpvr folder, copied the mencoder folder in there and renamed it to ffmpeg and renamed mencoder.exe to ffmpeg.exe

This is the line of code I added to the config.xml file to have a new processing option (none of the others will now work unless the original ffmpeg is put back):-

Code:

<Conversion name="MPEG4" cmd="{SOURCE_FILE} -o {DEST_FILE}  -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=5 -lameopts cbr:br=128/>

I made a very useful little batchfile that I just saved into my root directory as ConvertToAVI.bat and I use to encode files manually. Once you right-click on a file and do "open with", find the batchfile and click OK then you can reencode a file whenever you want just by right-clicking on it. VERY useful. The one line of text in the batch code is below, it will probably only work in Windows XP as I set the priority to low:-

Code:

start "Encoding MPEG" /low /min "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" "%~f1" -o "%~dp1%~n1.avi" -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=5 -lameopts cbr:br=128

Enjoy



Andy