[MEncoder-users] Encoding to DVD, size versus quality

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 12/19/06, Ismael Valladolid Torres <ivalladolidt at terra.es> wrote:
> Abu Zaher escribe:
> > Use all the parameters as said the doc and just tune the video bit rate to
> > your desired requirements.
>
> Does this mean that any video bitrate will be supported by any
> hardware player?

No. Players have to support these constraints:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html#menc-feat-vcd-dvd-constraints-resolution

anything besides these bitrate constraints aren't supposed to be
supported, though they may work with _some_ players that aren't too
fussy.

Guillaume
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