[MEncoder-users] MJPEG and LJPEG video bitrate

[Bill Crockett]

On 16/05/2013 1:03 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
 > Bill Crockett <wsc4 <at> optusnet.com.au> writes:
 >
 >> On 15/05/2013 9:21 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
 >>> Bill Crockett <wsc4 <at> optusnet.com.au> writes:
 >>>
 >>>> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ljpeg:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800
 >>>
 >>> It makes no sense to set a bitrate for a lossless encoder.
 >>>
 >> What about the MJPEG?  Can I set that?
 >
 > It works to some degree with ffmpeg as long
 > as you select single-threaded encoding.
 >
 > Carl Eugen
 >
 >
Thank you.  I just did a bare-bones test like this and it worked:

  ffmpeg -i input.avi -vcodec mjpeg -b 16000k -acodec copy ffmpeg_test.avi

However, with MEncoder and looking at the the bottom of the Man page, it 
gives an example:

The same, but with MJPEG compression:
mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mjpeg:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800

Experimenting with the vbitrate of 1800 up to 24000000 made no 
difference and defaulted to some set rate.

Before MEncoder became unmaintained, did this ever work?