For audio: mplayer -aid 129 -ao pcm:file=audio-2ch.wav -vo null -vc dummy -benchmark orig.vob neroAacEnc -if audio-2ch.wav -of audio-2ch.aac For video: mencoder -nosound -ofps 24000/1001 -vf crop=720:352:0:62,pullup,softskip,harddup -of rawvideo -ovc x264 -x264encopts pass=1:bitrate=905:threads=auto:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b -o /dev/null orig.vob mencoder -nosound -ofps 24000/1001 -vf crop=720:352:0:62,pullup,softskip,harddup -of rawvideo -ovc x264 -x264encopts pass=2:bitrate=905:threads=auto:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b -o video.264 orig.vob