[MEncoder-users] conversion from rm to avi - filesize blowout

[Guillaume POIRIER]

On 4/19/07, Phil Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
> People,
>
> When I converted a file with:
>
> mencoder 4Corners_Energy.rm -mf fps=25 -o 4Corners_Energy.avi -ovc lavc -oac pcm -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
>
> I got a filesize blowout from:
>
>         13.5MB
>
> to:
>
>         69.5MB
>
> - why is this?  I was expecting a modest increase in size . .

it's likely due to -oac pcm (i.e. uncompressed WAV)

Guillaume
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