[MEncoder-users] divx v's x264

J. M. jmisak at centrum.cz
Thu Jun 5 00:22:45 CEST 2008


Alex Samad <alex <at> samad.com.au> writes:

> My presumption when making that statement was that I was using
> different codecs.  If I use different codecs then I would presume I
> would get different size's. 

Bitrate, by definition, means number of bits per unit of time (usually a 
second). So for example, 400 kb/s bitrate means 400 kilobits per second, which 
means a 60 second video takes 400*60 kilobits, i.e. 24,000 kilobits.

So bitrate is bitrate (and therefore filesize), regardless of the codec.




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