[MPlayer-users] xvid

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:26:28AM -0300, Pablo Morales wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> Well, it  seems that xvid uses more bits than libavc, good, I use
> bitrate=1600 and ended up using 1400, compared to libavc with a vbitrate of
> 1800 and just used 950,  anyway, that' was not what I wanted, I wanted a
> 1.4G file and  not a 1200, anyway, I'l increase the audio bitrate anyway to
> increase the file size to fit in the CD, because it seems that quality
> cannot be inproved much more than that. I tried scaling from 512x384 and up
> to 720xXXX, but the same result.
> 
> But after all, with xvid I improved a bit more the quality, the weird thing
> is that  with some DVD I can use whatever bitrate I want and end up with a
> 3GB file size if I want, so..

It sounds like you're doing something grossly wrong. Why not show us
your command lines?

Rich