[MPlayer-users] Re: file size falls short of 700MB for multi pass

[Jonathan Rogers]

Stefan Baehre wrote:
> Nonsense. Quantisation and bitrate depend on each other. You should
> specify either vqscale *or* vbitrate. IIRC vqscale has higher
> priority and vbitrate is ignored.

What I said is not "nonsense." All four permutations are accepted by 
mencoder as valid sets of options. However, it would make sense if 
vbitrate is ignored when vqscale is specified. I don't think it's clear 
that quantizer is the only variable in determining bitrate.

Jonathan Rogers