[MPlayer-users] 3 pass encoding: scaling and bitrate

[Marcos Dione]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:48:00PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Huh?? Does downscaling change the length of the movie in time? Does it
> change the number of bits on a cd??? If the answer to these questions
> is no (and it is!) how the hell do you expect downscaling to let you
> increase the bitrate???

    i thought, and excuse my ignorance here, that scaling from 720x480
to 640x416 (or similar) would use less 'bits per frame' (note the
quotes), so the movie at a certain bitrate would occupy less @ the
second size, so letting me bumping the bitrate a little to fit again the
cd size.

    hmmm, seems like I should read more... :(