[MEncoder-users] Video bitrate 104857 kbps, video GOP is too long.

[Nico Sabbi]

Brian Keener wrote:

>
> The mpegopts parameter you suggested eliminated the warning from 
> tmpgenc dvd author; thanks for the hint.
>
> There are also ffmpeg options for format= and vbitrate=, and since I'm 
> using the libavcodec from ffmpeg, I'm confused as to whether those 
> paramaters are being passed to libavcodec, or are processed internally 
> by mencoder.  What would happen if I had vbitrate=7000 in my 
> -lavcopts, and vbitrate=4000 in my -mpegopts parameter?
>
> Brian K
>

the last element (the muxer) would overwrite the nominal bitrate header 
written
by the former element (lavc), but the real bitrate is in any case 
entirely dictated by lavc