Neal Crook <foofoobedoo <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > $ ffmpeg -i foo.avi -b:v 16M -codec mjpeg out_16M.avi > > When I examine/analyse the out_* files I observe that the file size/bit rate > does not drop below ~8Mbit/sec Did you try -qscale 31? This should result in the smallest possible size. Carl Eugen