[MEncoder-users] h263 encoding problem

[Jan Knutar]

On Monday 12 September 2005 16:49, jose at tecnosfera.org wrote:

> using vqmin:
> 
> >mencoder video.avi -sws 9 -vf scale=176:144 -ofps 10 -nosound -of
> rawvideo -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=h263:vqmin=4 -o example.263

vqmin=2 is the default. Default bitrate is, if I remember correctly, 600kbit/sec.
The picture probably looks quite excellent at that bitrate ;-)

> >mencoder video.avi -sws 9 -vf scale=176:144 -ofps 10 -nosound -of
> rawvideo -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=h263:vbitrate=48 -o example.263

In what way is it wrong? What do you expect from 48kbit? ;-)
I would try add lots of preprocessing, heavy denoise filter,
drop fps to 5 perhaps.