[MPlayer-users] mencoder bitrate error problem

[Eric Potter]

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:16, Eric Potter wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:20, Robin Phillips wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since at least 0.90pre10 I've been unable to get the bitrate part of 
> > mencoder to work properly (and possibly I've never had it working right so 
> > I could be something I'm doing wrong).
> > 
> > I've attached the three command lines I used below, plus the last few 
> > lines of output from each run. I also tried adding vqdiff=31 as per a 
> > response to a similar report in the mailing list archive from July 2002 
> > but that made no difference.
> > 
> > Note the problem is that I give the bitrate as 1411 as suggested by the 
> > output from the first pass. However the actual bitrate it uses during the 
> > second pass is 1128 which then hardly changes during the 3rd pass.
> > 
> I see that you are using qmin=2 and the problem could be that you are
> "maxed-out" in terms of how many bits you can fit into a quantizer
> of 2.  Try using qmin=1 which will allow the maximum amount of bits
> to be used.
>  
Sorry, make that vqmin=1