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
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