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  <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
  29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
  <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
    rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
  <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
</UL>

<B>Planned features:</B>
<UL>
  <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs

<P><B><A NAME=2.4.4>2.4.4.  Syntax</A></B></P>

<P>&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder [options] [input file] [options] ...</CODE></P>


<P><B><A NAME=2.4.5>2.4.5.  Available options</A></B></P>

<P>NOTE: for all available options, <B>read the man page!</B></P>

<P>

    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>br</B>=&lt;value&gt; - specify bitrate in kbit &lt;0-1024&gt; (this is for <B>CBR</B> only!)<BR>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>q</B>=&lt;value&gt; - quality (0-highest, 9-fastest - default 0) (this is for <B>VBR</B> only!)<BR>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>vbr</B>=&lt;value&gt; - VBR sub-mode (3-ABR, best quality/speed) (this is for <B>VBR</B> only!)<BR>
  </TD>
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</TABLE>

<P><B><A NAME=2.4.6>2.4.6.  Examples</A></B></P>

<P>Using <B>MEncoder</B> is the easiest thing on Earth. See the following:</P>

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  <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
  29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
  <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
    rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
  <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
  <LI>can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format</LI>
</UL>

<B>Planned features:</B>
<UL>
  <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs

<P><B><A NAME=2.4.4>2.4.4.  Syntax</A></B></P>

<P>&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder [options] [input file] [options] ...</CODE></P>


<P><B><A NAME=2.4.3.7>2.4.3.7.  Extracting DVD subtitles to Vobsub file</A></B></P>

<P><B>MEncoder</B> is capable of extracting subtitles from DVD into
Vobsub fomat files.  They consist of a pair of files ending in .idx
and .sub and are usually packaged in a single .rar archive.  MPlayer
can play these with the <I>-vobsub</I> and <I>-vobsubid</I> options.</P>

<P>You specify the basename (i.e without the .idx or .sub extension)
of the output files with <I>-vobsubout</I> and the index for this
subtitle in the resulting files with <I>-vobsuboutindex</I>.</P>

<P>If the input is not from a DVD you should use <I>-ifo</I> to
indicate the .ifo file needed to construct the resulting .idx file
</P>

<P>If the input is not from a DVD and you don't have the .ifo file
you'll need to use the <I>-vobsubid</I> option to let it know what
language id to put in the .idx file.</P>

<P>Each run will append the running subtitle if the .idx and .sub
files already exist.  So you should remove any before starting.

<P><B>Example</B></P>

<P><I>Copying two subtitles from a DVD while doing 3-pass encoding</I><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>rm subtitles.idx subtitles.sub</CODE><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder -dvd 1 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -sid 2 -o frameno.avi -ovc frameno</CODE>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc divx4 -pass 1</CODE><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc divx4 -pass 2 -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 1 -sid 5</CODE></P>

<P><I>Copying a french subtitle from an MPEG file</I><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>rm subtitles.idx subtitles.sub</CODE><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder movie.mpg -ifo movie.ifo -vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid fr -sid 1</CODE></P>

<P><B><A NAME=2.4.5>2.4.5.  Available options</A></B></P>

<P>NOTE: for all available options, <B>read the man page!</B></P>

<P>

    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>br</B>=&lt;value&gt; - specify bitrate in kbit &lt;0-1024&gt; (this is for <B>CBR</B> only!)<BR>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>q</B>=&lt;value&gt; - quality (0-highest, 9-fastest - default 0) (this is for <B>VBR</B> only!)<BR>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;<B>vbr</B>=&lt;value&gt; - VBR sub-mode (3-ABR, best quality/speed) (this is for <B>VBR</B> only!)<BR>
  </TD>
</TR>
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  <TD>    <I>-vobsubout</I> basename</TD>
  <TD>    Specify the basename for the output .idx and .sub files.  This turns off subtitle rendering on the encoded movie.</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
  <TD>    <I>-vobsuboutindex</I> index</TD>
  <TD>    Specify the index of this subtitles in the output files.  Defaults to 0</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
  <TD>    <I>-vobsuboutid</I> langid</TD>
  <TD>    Specify the language two letter code for this subtitle.  This overrides what is read from the DVD or the .ifo file.</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

<P><B><A NAME=2.4.6>2.4.6.  Examples</A></B></P>

<P>Using <B>MEncoder</B> is the easiest thing on Earth. See the following:</P>