video without SMC - first success + tutorial for linux and windows

Yes, I see the difference. Yet the following happened

(mencoder  version dev-SVN-r27637-4.3-openSUSE , openSUSE 11.0)

  vankan@pavilion102:~/video/danielle> file al_desio.avi
al_desio.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 576, 25.00 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: Dolby AC3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)

  vankan@pavilion102:~/video/danielle> srcvideo=al_desio.avi
  vankan@pavilion102:~/video/danielle> outfile=al_desio_fuze2.avi
  vankan@pavilion102:~/video/danielle> mencoder -ffourcc DX50 -ofps 20 -vf \ pp=li,expand=:::::224/176,scale=224:176,harddup -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=650:vmax_b_frames=0:keyint=15:turbo:vpass=1 -srate 44100 -af </font> format=s16le -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 $srcvideo -o $outfile 

(snip mega output mencoder)

  vankan@pavilion102:~/video/danielle> file al_desio_fuze2.avi
al_desio_fuze2.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 224 x 176, 20.00 fps, video: DivX 5, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz)

Curious isn’t it? You’d say it takes the resample frequency from -srate.  BTW taking -af lavcresample=44100,format=s16le also works fine and gives a file of exactly the same size…

Regards,  Jos.