Encoding Cartoons on Linux?

[Razorblade2000]

What are your Params to encode cartoon material?
ATM I use mencoder (or ffmpeg... but as it doesn't have any filters...) to create MPEG4 (xvid od libavcodec?) content (which I will be able to watch tomorrow on my hyper-sexy-99? divx standalone :-D )

Which params would u recommend me?
:D

[unixfs]

I converted many old cartoon tapes to xvid at 352x288 with a bitrate of 320.
Since the source was very bad, it didn't make sense to give xvid a higher
bitrate; the result is surprisingly good, provided you use mplayer or ffdshow for playback and postprocessing (mainly deblocking).

On a standalone you will surely need a higher bitrate; you may try with a higher value (such as 640) and then lower it until the quality begins to degrade too much.

In my opinion xvid compresses cartoons extremely well, and can keep
the average bitrate. Divx 5.03 couldn't, so I gave it up.