[MEncoder-users] Output bitrate significantly less than vbitrate

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:05:22 +0930
n0dalus <n0dalus at gmail.com> wrote:

> For 22 minutes of video this should produce a 700mb file. However I
> get a ~400mb file.

It's obvious that your source is being encoded at the maximum possible
quality, and simply not needing a bitrate of 4000.  What would you like
it to do with the bits it doesn't need, throw some random data in there?

If you want to increase the size, you could set vqmin to 1, or use "-vf
noise" to add some random noise that will be more difficult to encode
and require a higher bitrate...