MCEBuddy

First, let me just congratulate the author of MCEBuddy: What an awesome piece of software. It hasn't failed and it works better, with better lip sync than the Hauppage Wing software I purchased before I knew MCEBuddy existed. Kudos!

Second,

I use a Microsoft 80GB Zune. I use the Zune profile to create videos intended to play on the Zune's screen. However, I often record video and play the video back on a TV from the Zune (via a video cable). I would love to have a video format that is 720x480 (TV resolution) that is a higher quality and higher bitrate playback intended for Zune to TV playback. This would be awesome. Is this a feasible feature?

I don't use the wmv profile because it requires conversion before sync to the Zune and takes far too long to convert, so I would like a "Zune TV output" profile that I can just sync the output to a Zune and get approximately TV quality. 

In any case: thanks for the great software! 

Hey, glad to see it works well.  Making or changing a profile is pretty easy.  Backup a copy of the mencoder.conf file in C:\Program Files\Tyrell\MCEBuddy\mplayer.

 Use notepad to increase the relevant settings.  Here's what I use to get letterbox video (i.e., it crops the sides).  This is a modification of the PSP profile:

[PSP]
profile-desc="Zune 2 Cropped"
vf=pullup,softskip,pp=fd,scale=860:-2,crop=640:480,hqdn3d,harddup
lavdopts=threads=2
ovc=lavc=yes
oac=lavc=yes
lavcopts=aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac:threads=2
af=volnorm=2:lavcresample=24000
ofps=30000/1001
of=lavf=yes
lavfopts=format=psp
af=volnorm=2
#FileExtension=mp4

 
To increase a screen resolution, you just need to increase the size numbers. Try experimenting with a small 3 second clip (name it 123 so MCEbuddy transcodes it first).  Just start tweaking the numbers in the PSP profiles to get it to what you want. 
 

Thanks!

Is there a doc somewhere (here or out on the web) that explains the settings in the config file? 

beastman:

Thanks!

 

Is there a doc somewhere (here or out on the web) that explains the settings in the config file? 

Try here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html