[MPlayer-users] Bitrate filesize problem (2)

[Martin Collins]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:14:04 -0800
rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:

> It's obvious that it isn't as good as the source.  It's a very rough
> picture, and it get's VERY blocky when there is a lot of movement. 
> This is from a source that wasn't all that clean to begin with, so
> it's a major step-down in quality.

Yes, I would expect that even if it used all 526 kbits. For a 718x432
movie you will need at least 900kb/s to approach acceptable quality.
I would do some denoising (pp options) then scale to 352x224.
Even then getting a 2.75 hour movie on one CD is optimistic.

And use the -ofps 23.976 thing that Richard suggested.

> Otherwise, I plan to wait until
> there is a non-fractional release available, before I do some work
> on porting a newer version of MPlayer.

We shouldn't have long to wait for 0.90.

Martin