Ingo Foerster <foerster <at> pixbyte.com> writes: > I try to convert a x264 video to mpeg2. I set the bitrate > to 6000000 but the resulting video is never bigger than > 1.6 GB. It is possible that you misunderstand how encoding with "real" encoders (line mpeg2 and mpeg4) works. If you want best quality, use -qscale 2. Carl Eugen