Video encoding - Best practice - mencoder - dvb-t

[pade]

I'm trying to create a best practice for encoding video towards XBMC.
I have seen some recommendations at this forum of using "this" or "that" encoding SW, but some are not free and some are no longer supported/developed.
Therefor this thread is only intended for mencoder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder) and FFmpeg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg). Mencoder are included within MPlayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer), the very same module that are used (and modified) by XBMC

I'm not a video encoder guru myself, but I know there's a lot of you out there that could help me (and many others).

Please... Reply to this post with how you use mencoder and FFmpeg to encoder your dvb-t recordings to best fit the XBMC version as of today

This thread has the heading "Video encoding - Best practice - mencoder - dvb-t". I consider to also create the thread "Video encoding - Best practice - mencoder - DVD" and maybe also "Video encoding - Best practice - mencoder - Cartoon". Should I?
Also... Are this thread duplicated, i.e. can I get this information from somewhere else?

[ultrabrutal]

If you're not aiming at HD you can find tons of guides here: http://www.doom9.net
XBMC will play almost anything you throw at it

[pade]

If you're not aiming at HD you can find tons of guides here: http://www.doom9.net
XBMC will play almost anything you throw at it

I have checked that, but that's not what I'm looking for. There has been some threads about adding DVD encoding within XBMC, and there's many reasons why that's not gonna happen.

This thread was intended to make it almost as easy as it would bee if XBMC supported DVD and dvb-t mpeg encoding. I don't want to have anyone writing a shell based on ffmpeg and mencoder because that shell will be unsupported after a while. My intension was that this thread should discuss the very best way of encoding videos with ffmpeg and mencoder for the xbmc as of "time of reading this thread".