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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:10:01PM +0300, Ville Saari wrote:
> 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.

in general this is true. the only exception i can think of is when you
have really fancy backgrounds and stuff behind the credits eating lots
of bits, but the background still sucks enough that you don't want to
waste bits on it. :)

rich