[MPlayer-users] "Too many video packets in the buffer" playing a merged file

[Ville Saari]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:57:35AM +0100, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote:

> In another guide, whose name I don't remember, I've read that it's better
> encoding credits at a lower bit rate because all that black makes credits
> bit rate bigger than full movie bitrate, and hence makes lower the quality
> of movie parts that aren't credits.

Don't believe everything you read - all that black has exactly the opposite
effect! Large areas of constant color need almost no bits.

The text in credits eats a horrible amount of bits, but a good encoder only
needs to encode the new lines appearing form the bottom and everything
else is just motion vectors. I just tested a bunch of movies by splitting
the credits to separate file and checking the bitrate and every single one
had less bitrate in the credits than in the rest of the movie! And I
certainly hadn't done anything special to the credits while encoding them.

-- 
 Ville