[MEncoder-users] High quality encoding of anime

[RC]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:57 +0200
Winterbird <winterbird at anime-avatar.net> wrote:

> also, you should try to use vqscale (vbr) instead of vbitrate (cbr),

vbitrate is certainly NOT CBR...  It's actually average bitrate.

> it's harder to estimate filesize, but it looks much better.

This is bad advice.  With vqscale, you'll be using up a lot of bits
where they aren't needed, which means you have far less available for
complex scenes that actually need them.