[MPlayer-users] Re: 1080i to 1080p mpeg2 or x264?

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, RC wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:56:58 -0500 Steven Adeff wrote:
>
>> If I "do the math" with x264 all I'll get is the rough chance that
>> x264 will end up at the file size I want.
>
> No, it's not a rough chance.  If the ratecontrol is at all decent, you
> can get it down to the exact size you want, perhaps off by a MB at most.

More importantly, the ratecontrol won't magically get more accurate just 
because you specify bitrate*time instead of bitrate.
The two forms in xvid are exactly equivalent.

--Loren Merritt