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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:12:10PM -0600, Laine Lee wrote:
> (vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=8000) as well as removing
> cmp=2, and adding vqscale=2, and the quality remained about the same, but
> the bitrate went down. I even tried using vqscale=1

If the quality with vqscale=1 or vqscale=2 is too bad there are only
two possibilities:
1) you did not specify the right so the were ignored
2) your source video is already that horrible, and this is not an
encoding issue.

I assume you tried playing the video with the filters you use for
encoding with MPlayer?