>> I'm curios... why is it so damned hard to do this??
> 
>     Why do you think it's hard.

Why can't I just say -ovc mpeg1? Why do I have to say -ovc lacv 
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video? That seems unecessarily complex.

Also, why is there *nowhere* in the manual that says "to produce a 
standard MPEG-1 file, type XYZ"? Do you have any idea how freakin long 
it took me to decode the manual to the point where I could construct 
this commandline?

[E.g., nowhere is it actually documented that if you want to pass 
*multiple* options to lavc, you have to seperate them with colons. 
Eventually I noticed it in an example - an example demonstrating 
something completely unrelated to syntax - and copied it. In general, 
trying to figure out how the hell to make Mencoder do anything reduces 
to endless trail and cryptic error...]

> Most of these things will be needed whatever software you use. I've 
> noticed converting to MPEG1 or 2 is always a pain - I just use the avi 
> format and a codec like xvid. The commandline is a bit short.

As far as I can tell, making Mencoder output any format is equally 
difficult and error-prone. [I still can't get it to produce an 
uncompressed AVI file that anything except MPlayer can comprehend.] 
Adding a rare codec like XviD would just make matters worse...

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