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

[Ismael Valladolid Torres]

Guillaume POIRIER escribe:
> No. Players have to support these constraints:

I read:

> For instance, if you insist on fitting 20 or so hours on a DVD, you
> could use vbitrate=400. The resulting video quality would probably
> be quite bad. If you are trying to squeeze out the maximum possible
> quality on a DVD, use vbitrate=9800, but be warned that this could
> constrain you to less than an hour of video on a single-layer DVD.

Which is very interesting. Given that video downloads are often MPEG2
ripped from a DVD and reencoded to MPEG4, reencoding again to MPEG2 is
giving such a loss of quality that probably using a low bitrate is not
such a big drawback.

I'll give a try...

Cordially, Ismael
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