[MPlayer-users] encoding with xvid does not honor bitrate argument?!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:15:38AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have the following problem: I want to encode a set of .vob as follows:
> cat *.vob | mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1600:pass=1 -v -sid 0 -
> 
> But the bitrate/filesize I get is way to big. In fact the file created
> at the first pass is even bigger then the original .vob.
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> Pos:   0,3s      9f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:-0,013 [0:0] A/Vms 3/21 D/B/S 2/1/0 
> Pos:   0,4s     10f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:-0,017 [0:0] A/Vms 3/22 D/B/S 3/1/0 
> demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx. FPS changed to 23,976!  
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like you need -ofps 23.976!

Rich