[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Known regressions

[Loren Merritt]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 19:55, Rich Felker wrote:
>
>> It's not; the old code was just wrong. If you want to "revert" then
>> make an explicit option to ignore the convergence failure since thats
>> what the buggy old code essentially did. However I'm told that the
>> problem only happens when you erroneously specify a bitrate that
>> cannot be met given the qmin/etc. params.
>
> Actually I got a different message the other day, informing me that
> the bitrate chosen could not be met. If I don't remember entirely wrong,
> people have reported that the convergence error message sometimes
> goes away if you just change the bitrate slightly, so I think there's
> something more going on there than just people selecting too low
> or too high bitrates.

The other part of the bug was: the computation of whether it can meet the 
target bitrate is also slightly wrong. If a small change in target makes 
the message go away, then that means you were near the (incorrect) 
threshold before tweaking.

--Loren Merritt