[MEncoder-users] vbitrate

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:04:36PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:53:46 -0500
> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > Purely on a codec basis, mpeg4 is barely better than mpeg2.
> 
> At reasonably high bitrates, that's true.  At very low bitrates, it's
> not so close.
> 
> And I'd say the tiny GOP size for (standard) DVDs has a much bigger
> impact than the datarate.

Ah, forgot to mention that. It's along the same lines though -- the
issue is not the codec but the profile restraints, here GOP size being
the restraint of relevance.

Rich