[MEncoder-users] AVI overhead

[Martin Collins]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:05:39 -0800 (PST)
Jean Hoderd <jhoderd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> audiosize = 1000 * audiorate * duration / 8
> videosize = totalsize - audiosize
> videorate = 8 * videosize / duration / 1000
> 
> Now, this set of formulas does not into account the avi overhead.
> (The videosize should be totalsize minus audiosize *minus*
> overhead). My question is: how does one compute it?  (At least an
> estimation)

It will be somewhere in the region of 1.5% of totalsize.

Martin