[MEncoder-users] Experiences of video encoding

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Nicolas George wrote:
>
> The point that determined my decision is that the bitrate is a big number,
> and therefore highly arbitrary: why 700, why not 701? The quantizer, being a
> small number, makes a more straightforward choice. Needles to say that I
> like the -1 - 10 quality setting of the Vorbis codec very much.

So measure bitrate in mbit/s instead of kbit/s, and it will become a small 
number.
lavc's vqscale, x264's crf, and vorbis's quality are all real numbers, not 
integers. Why 3, why not 3.01?

--Loren Merritt