Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 03:00:41 +0200 From: Rolf Nielsen <rnmtw70@yandex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video DVD quality loss with mencoder/dvdauthor/growisofs Message-ID: <f14da89f-2e4b-69a4-2711-7d99d70d0a4d@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <bbf91125-74e8-bdd4-d845-26a7dd31315c@yandex.com> References: <20160815013606.896d920c.freebsd@edvax.de> <bbf91125-74e8-bdd4-d845-26a7dd31315c@yandex.com>
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Reposting to include the list (apologies).
On 2016-08-15 02:54, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
>
>
> On 2016-08-15 01:36, Polytropon wrote:
>> Currently I'm searching for a way to create MPEG files suitable
>> for creating movie DVDs. My source files are SD videos with the
>> following properties:
>>
>> container: AVI
>> video: DivX DX50, 640x360 px, 24 bpp, 25 fps
>> audio: MP3, 44.1 kHz, 2 ch, 128 kbps
>>
>> I'd like to "inflate" the video for DVD resolution. When I use
>> mencoder to do so, the graphics gets "blocky". There are no
>> visible compression artifacts in the source video, but the
>> result is really terrible. I know I cannot "increase quality"
>> when doing 640x360 -> 704x576, but it should not get worse.
>>
>> My solution is a script "avi2dvd" which uses mencoder, dvdauthor
>> and growisofs to prepare the required data structures and then
>> burn them onto DVD+R media. The DVD players I tested them with
>> play the result format, but show the "blocky" video just like
>> a software player (both by checking the .mpg and .vob files),
>> so the postprocessing steps do not introduce that significant
>> quality loss.
>>
>> At its heart, the script contains this step:
>>
>> mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -ofps 25 \
>> -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=704:576,harddup \
>> -af lavcresample=44100 -srate 44100 \
>> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:keyint=15:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 \
>> -o ${MPEGFILE} ${AVIFILE}
>>
>> This reflects the parameters I got from the mplayer documentation
>> on the web where this approach is listed for creating DVD files.
>> But as I said: The quality is terrible.
>>
>> (Sidenote: I will additionally need to experiment with -vf crop
>> in order to deal with mis-aligned video sources.)
>>
>> Can anyone provide a _verified_ method that _does not lower_ the
>> resulting video quality?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try -sws 9 -vf scale=704:576:0:0:10,harddup,pp=ac and see if that helps.
>
> -sws 9 selects lanczos filter for scaling, and the 10 at the end of the
> scale filter does some settings with lanczos (I don't remember exactly
> which, but the result looks awful without it), and the pp=ac is a post
> processing filter that should reduce blockiness.
>
> And btw, DVD video requires the audio tracks to be 48000 Hz.
>
--
Vänligen / Sincerely,
Rolf Nielsen
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