[MPlayer-users] Limit on MPEG2 size?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Tony Houghton <h <at> realh.co.uk> writes:

> Does mencoder have a limit on the bitrate when generating MPEG2? The
> last couple of times I've tried to convert films from H264 to DVD using
> DeVeDe or entering a similar mencoder command line manually, I end up
> with a file of only 2-3GB instead of the >4GB I want.

Simply use a fixed quantizer of 2 (?, I believe that is the "highest" allowed
value) to find out the maximum possible file-size.

Carl Eugen