[MEncoder-users] Vbitrate not honored?

[RC]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:19:12 +0200
Stefan Neufeind <mencoder at stefan-neufeind.de> wrote:

> Framerates seems to be fine on the resulting video - even without
> giving an explicit fps. But the file is *much* smaller now. 

You ALWAYS need to set an -ofps value with WMV files.  They are variable
FPS, so mencoder will use 1000FPS if it's not set.  It's likely that's
the reason for your bitrate problem.