[MPlayer-users] Bitrate confusion

[Martin Collins]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:25:47 +0200 (CEST)
Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer at gmx.de> wrote:

>  I want to encode a greyscaled video.
>  Audio extraction said I "should" use -- for example -- 1616 as
>  vbitrate for a target size of 700MB.
> 
>  I used 1591 and got a 722572402 fat file.

700MB is 734003200 bytes so your result seems reasonable.

>  I fear, I missed an important option to feed into mencoder...here
>  are the options I used:
> 
>    export OPTS="-vf denoise3d=0:0:0:hqdn3d=0:0:0:crop=700:576:12:0 \
>                  -mc 0 -noskip -skiplimit 0"

I doubt that using both denoise3d and hqdn3d is useful, especially as
you are telling them to do nothing.
Your crop parameters should be divisible by 16, 700 is not.

Martin