[MEncoder-users] Compression too great, bitrate too low on detelecined deinterlaced mpeg2video

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:13:05AM -0600, Laine Lee wrote:
> I don't care about how long the encoding process takes, and I
> don't care much about limiting output file size.

If bitrate is not critical you should never specify bitrate. Use e.g.
vqscale=2 instead.
Also my guess is that *cmp=2 is the wrong option if you care more about
a sharp picture than about avoiding blocking artifacts.