[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPEG-1/2 - Problems with ratecontrol!

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sunday 01 August 2004 02:50, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:25:21AM +0000, Rui Correia wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I come from a big community that has been trying MEncoder with good
> > results so far.
> > That is KVCD community at www.kvcd.net/forum .
> > We only do MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 targets.
> > We use the vbitrate, vrc_minrate and vrc_maxrate.
> > And that's our problem!
> > - When we use min and max bitrate MEncoder blows the quantizers.
> > - And mostly doesn't respect the min and max levels...
> > We know other libavcodec encoders have the same problem like, ffmpeg,
> > Milan's FFvfw, Nic's QuEnc, etc.
> > Could someone tell us if the MPlayer Team is still supporting
> > MPEG-1/2?
>
> Michael, i think this is something for you.
> Could you please check it and fix if necessary ?
i know that min/max rate arent free of issues and its on my todo list to fix 
it ...

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-- 
Michael
level[i]= get_vlc(); i+=get_vlc();		(violates patent EP0266049)
median(mv[y-1][x], mv[y][x-1], mv[y+1][x+1]);	(violates patent #5,905,535)
buf[i]= qp - buf[i-1];				(violates patent #?)
for more examples, see http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/patent.html
stop it, see http://petition.eurolinux.org & http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en