[MEncoder-users] Output bitrate significantly less than vbitrate

[n0dalus]

On 9/24/05, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 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...
>

Ok, I guess that makes sense since the source is already compressed.
Thanks.

n0dalus.