Я rip titles from DVD (as I have learned with the very good parameters) this way: $ mencoder dvd://3 -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:vbitrate=1800:vpass=1 -vf crop=854:355:0:62,scale=854 -o movie.avi But get at least 3 problems: . mplayer shows picture with the width=854, while mencoder (if I use not scale=854), compresses it with width=720. - Why? . In the frames of a lot of movement I noticed the picture is covered with VERY BIG squares! While at the scenes of a little movement, the picture is quiet well. . As I try to do make second pass (the same command differs in vpass=2 only), - as I understood, for the better quality - the more passes, the better picture is - in my case quality becomes worse and not better! So, if any comment, suggestions, please share them with me. I have mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4 that I made out of src.rpm. Thank You! -- Best regards, Strong.