Encode MPEG2 with ffmpeg.

[maxfu]

My commandline:

ffmpeg.exe -i "D:\Source\Source.avi" -target film-dvd -s 720x352 -padtop 64 -padbottom 64 -maxrate 7350000 -b 3700000 -sc_threshold 1000000000 -cgop -g 12 -bf 2 -qmin 2 -qblur 0.3 -qcomp 0.7 -me full -dc 10 -mbd 2 -aspect 16:9 -pass 1 -passlogfile "D:\Video\ffmpegencode" -an -f mpeg2video "D:\Source.m2v"

ffmpeg.exe -i "D:\Source\Source.avi" -target film-dvd -s 720x352 -padtop 64 -padbottom 64 -maxrate 7350000 -b 3700000 -sc_threshold 1000000000 -cgop -g 12 -bf 2 -qmin 2 -qblur 0.3 -qcomp 0.7 -me full -dc 10 -mbd 2 -aspect 16:9 -pass 2 -passlogfile "D:\Video\ffmpegencode" -an -f mpeg2video "D:\Source.m2v"

This setting can encode at a speed of 40fps on my P4D 3.4G computer.

the size of the a frame of the Source.avi file is 1920x798
-target fps=23.976：film-dvd
fps=29.97： ntsc-dvd ntsc-vcd ntsc-svcd
fps=25： pal-dvd pal-vcd pal-svcd
-s with -pad NTSC 720x480
PAL 720x576
-padtop -padbottom:
720x((420 or 576)-(padtop+padbottom))
-padleft -padright:
(720-(padleft+padright))x(420 or 576)
16:9: 798*853/1920=354 => multiple of 4 => 352 => 720x352
-padtop = -padbottom = 64
4:3: 798*640/1920=266 => multiple of 4 => 264 => 720x264
-padtop = -padbottom = 108
-b bitrate bit/s 60000000 => 6000kbps
-maxrate Can but should not be bigger than 8000.
-aspect 4:3 (1.3333) or 16:9 (1.7777)
DAR of source 〉1.77 =〉16:9，other 4:3

[Pookie]

Cool. :) Have you tried muxing and actually creating a DVD with it? Which version of ffmpeg ? Release date?
I used to use ffmpeg for DVD encoding, but the bitrate used to spike above the permitted limit.

BTW, this version encodes at HD Res. Couldn't get later versions to do the same (prolly my fault) http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.rev6199.7z

[maxfu]

Try this.
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.rev7768.7z