[plumi-discuss] memcoder video quality

[roland fasching]

hi!

i am running the www.screensessions.com website and the project runs  
great for more than one year.
the only complaints we receive targets to video quality.
is there a way to improve it?

thank you!

roland
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my indytube.conf:

[encoder]
BE_HOW_NICE=18
CONVERT_THESE 
=['.avi','.qt','.mov','.mpeg','.mp4','.mpg','.asf','.wmv','.3gp']
DO_ENCODING=True
NUMBER_OF_PARALLEL_ENCODERS=20
ENCODER_LOCKFILE_BASE=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/Products/indytube/ 
plumidemo-encoder.lock
POLLTIME=60

[mencoder]
MENCODER_LOCATION=/usr/bin/mencoder
MENCODER_OPTIONS=-really-quiet -of lavf -lavfopts  
i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames -oac mp3lame - 
lameopts abr:br=56 -ovc lavc -lavcopts  
vcodec=flv:keyint=50:vbitrate=150:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3  
-vf scale=425:344 -srate 22050

[ffmpeg2theora]
CORTADO_LOCATION=http://demo.plumi.org/flowplayer/cortado-ovt-debug-0.2.2.jar
FFMPEG2THEORA_COMMAND=ffmpeg2theora

[flvtool2]
FLVTOOL_LOCATION=/usr/bin/flvtool2

[paths]
VIDEO_FILE_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/var/files/Members
FLV_FILE_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/static/flv-files
INCLUDE_FILE_DIRECTORY=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/var/files/Members
INCLUDE_FILE_SUFFIX=.flv.inc
INCLUDE_TEMPLATE=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/Products/indytube/ 
screensessions.template

[urls]
FLOWPLAYER_LOCATION=http://www.screensessions.com/static/FlowPlayerWhite.swf
VIDEO_SERVER_URL=http://flv.screensessions.com
SPLASH_IMAGE_BASE=http://www.screensessions.com/static
SPLASH_IMAGE_FILE=play-button-328x240.jpg

[logging]
LOG_FILE=/var/lib/zope29/screensessions/Products/indytube/plumi- 
wetube.log
LOG_LEVEL=logging.INFO