On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Mark Williams (MWP) wrote: MWM>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] MWM>Hi all, MWM> MWM>Ive just compiled/installed 1.00b3. MWM>Through a bit of googling and searching of this mailing list im using: MWM> MWM>-lavcopts MWM>vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$BITRATE:vhq:trell:mbd=2:vmax_b_frames=1:v4mv:vb_strategy=0:vlelim=0:vcelim=7:cmp=2:subcmp=2:precmp=2:predia=1:dia=1:vme=4:vpass=1 MWM> MWM>Using this though, mencoder seems to be ignoring the bitrate im MWM>specifying. MWM>For example, i specified 700kbit, and mencoder produced an avi MWM>avging ~1600kbits/sec (2pass). MWM> MWM>What am i doing wrong? Well, firstly you should remove vhq option - you are using newer "mbd=2" instead. Second, using vb_strategy=0 and vme=4 is useless, this is default. Also I'm not sure that you are improving quality by specifying predia & dia options, you should check it. After those changes (also without them) the above string works for me, but I'm using mplayer 1.0pre4 & cvs libavcodec. Are you sure you are actually encoding video, you need to use "-ovc lavc" instead of "-ovc copy"? Btw, in future always report complete command line. -- Vladimir