hi all i'm trying to get mencoder working to convert a video along with an intro video (so essentially joining two videos but this will be for many files all with the same intro file) but i can't seem to find any good guides out there

here's what i want:

video: x264 @ 200kbs
audio: lame mp3 22050 Hz stereo @ 64kbs cbr
resolution: 512:384
framerate: 23.976
container: avi

and i want to mp3 converting and video converting to be as fast as possible (i know there are options to speed it up) and also to have multi-core support if available

please help

can i get some help on this please?

What you want to do may be more complicated, so you may have to take it step by step, to join files see here:
http://www.misterhowto.com/index.php..._with_mencoder
Also see some howtos on converting the videos:
http://wiki.quakeworld.nu/Mencoder_howto

You may need to first convert all videos to a common format and settings and then join them. I've never done all that in one step, but you can try.

I can't really provide you with a specific example because I usually use ffmpeg to encode videos, then if I need to join them (rarely) I use mencoder.

can't i just combine the two following commands?

into something like:

that should work right? now i just need the mp3 audio settings and the resolution/framerate

i think the mp3 setting go like this:
and the resolution like this:
please advise

I would try this command:

You can also do 2 pass encoding if you want better quality as the tutorial says, but it takes at least twice as long.

thank you i'll try that now.. also will that work on windows and linux as i use both?

hey where can i get mencoder from without mplayer? or at least without smplayer?

It should work on both OSs. You cannot get mencoder without mplayer, it's a part of it. Just download it from the main site, they suggest using svn especially when using newer dependencies:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Then compile it. smplayer is not necessary, it's just a GUI frontend.

if i get it from the svn will it be windows binary's or source as i don't know how to compile it on windows only linux :\

On window$ just use the binary:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

hmm i can't get the svn to work lol not a good day :P

what do i use on my intel g6600?

MPlayer-p4-svn-29312.7z
mplayer-r29312.tar.bz2
MPlayer-rtm-svn-29312.7z

Try the p3 or p4 or rtm (whatever that means). These were likely compiled to support at least pentium 3 = p3, pentium 4 = p4, and whatever rtm is.

I can't help with this too much because I don't use Window$, haven't used it in quite some years.

just tried that but i get this error:

so i changed it to this and it works 100%

but the quality it lower then when i use the same settings in mediacoder so is there an option to use 2 pass or anything else that will improve the quality?

i've tried this but still no luck:

also it works if i change pass=2 to pass=1

You need to do them in order, first run it with pass=1, then with pass=2. If you want better quality you can also remove the threads option, it may affect motion estimation. However, you said you wanted a multithreaded way of encoding. You can also add the 'nr=' option back in, but it's mostly for noisy input videos, nr = noise reduction filter.