[MPlayer-users] Encoding 2 chapters to 2 divx's that fit 700MB

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 12 June 2002, Sander Smeenk wrote:
[snip recommended rates] 
> Can I just assume that I should use a bitrate of 2279 / 2 = 1140 for the
> first chapter and a bitrate of 2064 / 2 = 1032 for the second chapter to
> get optimal results for fitting the entire DVD on one 700MB CD?

Yes.

> Yesterday I tried encoding chapter 1 at br=1300 and got a 285MB
> resulting test.avi file with estimated 997.3 bitrate (mplayer told me
> that) and it looked like crap. So i'm a bit puzzled since I've seen
> DVD-Rips to Divx that uses a bitrates of about 997 that looked almost as
> sharp as the DVD original.

RTFDOCS
vqmin=2
 
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