Transcode to MPEG2 in WeatherWax vs RiceWind

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Hi,
I've been using Ricewind to convert my videos to MPEG2. Recently I upgraded to WeatherWax since it says there are some important security fixes. Unfortunately the output of Weatherwax is much worse than in RiceWind.

My Source video is here:

http://www.tvmediashare.com/ESW/Files/Grimm_Pilot.avi

i use the following command line params to convert it:

--sout "#transcode{venc=ffmpeg,vcodec=mp2v,vb=8500,acodec=mp2,channels=2,ab=192,samplerate=48000}:std{access=file,mux=ps,dst="converted.mpg"}" --sout-transcode-width 480 --sout-transcode-height 320 --sout-ffmpeg-keyint=2 --sout-avcodec-rc-buffer-size=12000000 --sout-avcodec-vt=1000000 --sout-avcodec-mpeg4-matrix --sout-avcodec-rc-buffer-aggressivity=0.5 "C:\Media\Grimm_Pilot .avi"

In RiceWind I get the following output:

http://www.tvmediashare.com/ESW/Files/c ... ceWind.mpg

in WeatherWax I get the following:

http://www.tvmediashare.com/ESW/Files/c ... herWax.mpg

As you can see the Weatherwax converted file is much worse that the RiceWind one. Also I notice that the good file is 186MB, but the bad one is only 24MB...which would seem to point to a bitrate problem.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong in the new software?

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I did some more research and when I examine the output of WeatherWind it seems the FPS is 60. So I forced the FPS to the same as the input (23.976) and when the movie converts it's size is almost identical to the good RiceWind transcode. When I play it, the first 6 or 7 seconds are perfect but then it refuses to play anymore. Any more help would be appreciated.

[Lotesdelere]

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 42#p448442

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Thank you for you reply Lotesdelere.