Two-pass MPEG4 encoding with mencoder
I keep forgetting this, so I’ll put it here for everyone (including me) to see:
mencoder dvd:// -o movie.avi \
-oac mp3lame \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vqmax=10:lmax=10:keyint=130:vpass=1:turbo \
-sid 3 -aid 130 \
-vf scale=720:405,expand=720:576:0:25:1 \
-spuaa 4
For the second pass, change vpass=1:turbo
to vpass=2
.