[MPlayer-users] advice on mencoder options

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 16 November 2003 at 02:04, HR wrote:
[...] 
> The lame docs state that the file size is totally unpredictable when
> using vbr. However, for any practical purposes (ie. encoding the audio
> of a DVD movie), the size is predictable to well within +- 10%, which is
> good enough for targeting an approx average bitrate. q=6 has kept the
> abr in the 100-115 range for a variety of my movie encodings (not
> concerts or musicals, but plain movies).
> 
> Really *explaining* the algorithm quality is beyond my capability, and
> probably holds only a theoretical interest for acoustics professionals.
> aq=2 is recommended by the lame project. If you don't care about speed,
> then aq=0 probably works just fine, and might even improve quality.

Thanks a lot. That was exactly I was hoping for. This should be added
to encoding docs, IMHO.

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