[ -z "$2" ] && echo "usage: $0 <infile> <outfile>" && exit 1 

# reduce resolution: i'm only interested in ``VHS'' quality, for archiving 
# only.  700kbps is about 700MB for standard film.  -mc 0 gives better audio 
# sync since video comes from high-quality source.  using xvid instead of 
# lavc to generate something my dvd player recognises.  add 10db of volume, 
# since dvd has a lot of headroom.

# MENC="mencoder dvd://$2 -af volume=10:0 -vf scale -zoom -xy 512 -dvd-device $1 -alang en -mc 0 -ovc xvid"


mencoder "$1" -vf scale -zoom -xy 512 -ovc xvid \
	-xvidencopts bitrate=700 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 \
	-o "$2"