[MEncoder-users] Capture tv signal with mencoder

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Monday 2009-06-15 21:13, mierdatutis mi wrote:

>Thanks!
>
>I understand that mpeg2(mpeg)  must have more size to can have the same
>quality that mpeg4 (avi).
>
>I have a program that I input a size that I would like to have the recording
>and the program caculates the bitrate by this way:
>
>mb*1000000*8/minutes*60/1000
^[1]
>
>So if I would like that a recording have 300mb the bitrate is 1333.
>
>I would like to do this, but recording in mpeg, not in avi. How could I
>calculate the bitrate,

The bitrate remains the same... simply because the formula^[1] is
independent of codec.