[MPlayer-users] Re: funky newbie problem

[Michael Waters]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:08 +0100, Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> > cocktail.  One thing though is that the resulting file is ~850 kbps not
> > 800:
> > 
> >   Video stream:  850.646 kbit/s  (106330 bps)  size: 7227106 bytes
> >   67.968 secs  2038 frames
> > 
> > I guess this is because of vratetol?
> 
> The vratetol parameter controls the tolerance of the filesize, not the
> bitrate. In other words the unit is kbits, not kbits/s.
>
> >  I wonder if this would be a
> > problem to fit a file within 700mb.
> 
> Remember that it's only a bit more than 1 minute over maybe 90. The
> VBR code can decide to use 2x (or more) the overall bitrate for a few
> minutes and still achieve the required bitrate on the whole film.

Hi,

Thanks for clarifying this... that makes sense.  I will give libavcodec
another try and use vratetol.

Michael