On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:24 -0700, RC wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:25:24 +0200
> Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net> wrote:
> > I have figured out that the bitrate reported is the max bitrate set,
> > not the average.  So if I bring the average down, it works, but it's
> > trial and error, and re-encoding a couple of times over in some cases.
> 
> What works?  Why do you need to re-encode?

I mean, if I bring the average bitrate down, I get the correct size.
But mencoder doesn't seem to honour the average bitrage I give, and the
resulting file will often have an average bitrate that's a few hundred
kbit/s less (usually) than what I specified.  So I have to try again.

Hans