[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] new mpeg muxer

[Trent Piepho]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > The second is that the rate control, specifically vrc_maxrate, doesn't appear
> > to work.  No matter what rate control options I used, the encoding would have
> > peak bitrates much too high for my DVD player to play from CD-RW media.
> 
> it works as long as you set the vbv buffer size (vrc_buf_size)
> correctly. at least it worked for me making a vcd yesterday...

I did this, still didn't work.  VCDs are CBR, while a SVCD is VBR, that could
make a difference.  I could play back the SVCDs I made with mplayer, but my
DVD player couldn't handle the higher than specified bitrates and would skip.