I've done some searching both here and on the greater web to identify an answer
to this question.  I honestly didn't think it'd be this hard, but I guess it
is.

I have a Buffalo LinkTheater box at home connected to my television.  It will
attach to DLNA servers and play files.  I watch downloaded television shows
this way and it works pretty well.  The only files that haven't worked were
corrupted.

I want to watch my new animation on my television.  I can't find the right
settings for mencoder that will generate a file that has no artifacts and no
color defects.  The files look just fine on my PC, for what it's worth.

Things I've tried:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html -- 14.8.5.2

This made blocks and had color defects, but played.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mencoder_divx_to_dvd -- widescreen

This didn't play at all.

http://atomized.org/2005/03/converting-divxxvid-avi-to-dvd-with-ffmpeg/ --
Keef's comment

This one also played poorly.

Any suggestions?

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Mathuin wrote:
> I've done some searching both here and on the greater web to identify an answer
> to this question.  I honestly didn't think it'd be this hard, but I guess it
> is.
> 
> I have a Buffalo LinkTheater box at home connected to my television.  It will
> attach to DLNA servers and play files.  I watch downloaded television shows
> this way and it works pretty well.  The only files that haven't worked were
> corrupted.
> 
> I want to watch my new animation on my television.  I can't find the right
> settings for mencoder that will generate a file that has no artifacts and no
> color defects.  The files look just fine on my PC, for what it's worth.
> 
> Things I've tried:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html -- 14.8.5.2
> 
> This made blocks and had color defects, but played.
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mencoder_divx_to_dvd -- widescreen
> 
> This didn't play at all.
> 
> http://atomized.org/2005/03/converting-divxxvid-avi-to-dvd-with-ffmpeg/ --
> Keef's comment
> 
> This one also played poorly.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 

I've had good luck with xvid and a constant quantizer when I don't care 
about file size.  For example:

mencoder mf://'*.png' -mf fps=25:type=png -ovc xvid -xvidencopts 
fixed_quant=2:autoaspect -ofps 25 -o video.avi

You can try 3, 4 etc, the higher the number generally means the lower 
the quality.  I don't believe it is a good idea to use 1.  Hope this helps.

-- 
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3}}}translate z*3}

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Blue Herring <pov### [at] bherringcotsenet> wrote:
> Mathuin wrote:
> > I've done some searching both here and on the greater web to identify an answer
> > to this question.  I honestly didn't think it'd be this hard, but I guess it
> > is.
> >
> > I have a Buffalo LinkTheater box at home connected to my television.  It will
> > attach to DLNA servers and play files.  I watch downloaded television shows
> > this way and it works pretty well.  The only files that haven't worked were
> > corrupted.
> >
> > I want to watch my new animation on my television.  I can't find the right
> > settings for mencoder that will generate a file that has no artifacts and no
> > color defects.  The files look just fine on my PC, for what it's worth.
> >
> > Things I've tried:
> >
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html -- 14.8.5.2
> >
> > This made blocks and had color defects, but played.
> >
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mencoder_divx_to_dvd -- widescreen
> >
> > This didn't play at all.
> >
> > http://atomized.org/2005/03/converting-divxxvid-avi-to-dvd-with-ffmpeg/ --
> > Keef's comment
> >
> > This one also played poorly.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
>
> I've had good luck with xvid and a constant quantizer when I don't care
> about file size.  For example:
>
> mencoder mf://'*.png' -mf fps=25:type=png -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
> fixed_quant=2:autoaspect -ofps 25 -o video.avi

This worked perfectly.  Thank you so much, I'll be doing it this way from now
on.

>
> You can try 3, 4 etc, the higher the number generally means the lower
> the quality.  I don't believe it is a good idea to use 1.  Hope this helps.
>
> --
> // The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
> #include"functions.inc"isosurface{function{-f_strophoid(x/2-.45,y,
> z*3,1,1.2,1,1.5)-.05}contained_by{box{<-2.1,-1,-1/3>,<1.4,1,1/3>}}
> max_gradient 12inverse hollow pigment{rgbf 1}interior{media{samples
> 8 emission<3,80,150>/255density{crackle metric 1color_map{[0rgb 6]
> [.03rgb 0][1rgb 0]}scale<1,2,1>warp{turbulence<.5,.75,.5>}scale 1/
> 3}}}translate z*3}

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Just burn it to a DVD and play it with a DVD player! :-P

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