[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] ae_lavc: set default bitrate to 128k

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:20:17PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> The current default abitrate for ae_lavc is 224. For MP2 (the default
> codec), this is incompatible with some common sample rates, like 16000.
> Also, this is quite a large value, while the default vbitrate is quite low.

I think this is for AC3 for which 128 is rather low.

> The attached patch changes it to 128k.

Actually even for MP2 128k is rather low. For MP3 or Vorbis that
would be ok but for MP2, I don't know.

> Furthermore, the default video bitrate is rather low, which makes it
> somewhat absurd to have a high default audio bitrate.

It might make sense to select a higher default video bitrate then?
I guess few people nowadays encode to compressed-to-death 640x480
or such anymore.