[MPlayer-users] mencoder suggested bitrate strange

[Felix Buenemann]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 09:51, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
>         something strange - the suggested bitrates were all higher than the
>         original DVD.   The DVD is, according to mencoder, at 5000.0 kbps
>         but the "Recommended video bitrate" values are 6477, 6993 and 8026
>         respectively.
>
>         That seems strange.   I chose a value of 1000 and proceeded with
> the encoding run - looks ok so far.
>
> mencoder -dvd 1 -chapter 2-7 -vop scale=640:480 -sws 2 -oac mp3lame
> -lameopts vbr=3:br=224:q=4 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
the suggestions are only sane for long stuff, like complete movie, as they 
tell you bitrate to use to best fir the movie into eg. 700MB to put it on cd. 
So if you eg. encode 2min clip you ill get insanely high bitrate tips.

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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