[MPlayer-users] Re: Adding subtitles to .mpg for DVD

[RC]

On Fri, 5 May 2006 04:51:54 +0000 (UTC)
Reshat Sabiq <sabiq at csociety.org> wrote:

> I tried a bitrate calculator, but it wasn't very accurate. I found
> that i had to reduce vbitrate from original 9300 to 5000 to get the
> same file size for one episode, but for another episode that resulted
> in a considerably smaller than original file size. 

Either that's the worst bitrate calculator ever, or something is very
weird in how you are encoding.  I suggest posting your command-line, and
maybe file info on the input and output files.

> My biggest problem now is two-fold:
> 1. The mencoder-converted files appear to have choppy audio in the
> last .5-to-1 second of the file. A mild music ends up sounding more
> like a buzz, for instance. 

Sounds like a broken audio frame.  I'll bet -afm libmad will fix that
for you.