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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Mencoder and FFMPEG strangeness

I have a directory full of image files and I'm using Mencoder to convert them to an movie:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o out.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2

This use to produce a good quality avi file that was reasonable in size. For some reason Mencoder no longer is kicking out good videos at the default bit rate. It 's not until I jack the bitrate up to around 4000 that the file stops being pixelated:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=4000

This is new behavior. And it happens with any codec. Any thoughts?

EDIT--->>> FFMPEG is doing the same thing