[MPlayer-users] mencoder failing to encode at desired bitrate/filesize

[Ed Sweetman]

Every now and then I get a video source that simply refuses to encode 
over a seemingly random bitrate, no matter what I set it at.  I've seen 
this happen with the xvid codec and ffmpeg's mpeg4 codec (those are the 
two I use).   Nothing seems to be special about these files.  I was just 
wondering if anyone else has seen this problem, where mencoder wont 
encode over some arbituary bitrate, no matter what the value on the 
command line is.