[FFmpeg-devel] CBR Bitrate control in MPEG-2 video encoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:22:18PM +0200, Sven Brandau wrote:
> Am 25.05.2010 23:30, schrieb Michael Niedermayer:
>> cbr (constant bitrate) does not mean constant framesize
>> the bitrate that enters the vbv should be constant
>>    
> And how are you measure the bitrate? In a very simple way you will take the 
> whole time of the video stream and calculate the bitrate from file size. 
> The only question is (beside the vbv constrains) how small is the time unit 
> in which the bitrate will be calculated. 1s? 30s? ...?

you must read and understand the mpeg specs and how vbv works, this discussion
is pointless otherwise.


>
>> and only a true mpeg2 stream analyzer can tell you the bitrate prior to
>> the vbv. Your mail does not sound like you used such a tool
>>
>>    
> You are right, I don't have such a tool. Have you ever tried such a tool on 
> the ffmpeg MPEG-2 video encoder?

some people did

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