Cinepak encoder?

[andrew.46]

Could I ask one more favour of you? Would you be able to encode the video file using Cinepak again but at a really really low bit rate?

This could take a little longer as it looks like that to alter bitrates when encoding with the Video For Windows codec family you also need to build vfw2menc either using wine or mingw on Windows. Details at the bottom of this page:

7.6. Encoding with the Video For Windows codec family
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en...r-windows.html

and the actual usage of this application and how to incorporate it into MEncoder syntax is not entirely clear to me from either the man pages or the html docs. Mind you this will probably be the hint in -xvfwopts:

compdata=<file>
The name of the codec settings file (like firstpass.mcf) created
by vfw2menc.

I shall have a look at vfw2menc and see what happens

Andrew

Edit: You may be out of luck as there appear to be no options within the codec:

wine vfw2menc.exe.so -f cvid -d iccvid.dll -s onepass.mcf
[...]
Z:\home\andrew\Desktop\vfw2menc.exe.so: The driver doesn't provide a configure dialog

[hellocatfood]

Edit: You may be out of luck as there appear to be no options within the codec

That's a real big shame When I upgrade I'll also ask on the mailing list but it looks like you may be right about this one

Thanks for all of your help

[andrew.46]

Thanks for all of your help

It has been a pleasure and I have learned about Cinepak encoding with MEncoder which I had no idea about before .

Andrew