[MPlayer-users] Bitrate filesize problem (2)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:56:04AM -0800, rcooley wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> The problem I'm experiencing is that the vbitrate which SHOULD give me a 
> 700MB file is giving me a 586MB file instead.  I've searched the 
> archives (as well as Google), but get tons of unrelated results.  I'm 
> using a 2-pass method, which is really just the three-pass method 
> described in the docs, without the final (3rd) pass. (no point in a 
> third-pass when I know the size is wrong in the second-pass)
> 
> The commmands for each pass (verbatim) and some extra information follows:
> 
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> Pass-2:
> mencoder -alang en -dvd 1 -lameopts q=9:mode=1 -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=526:vhq -oac copy -vop crop=718:432:0:24 -ovc lavc 
> -o Apocalypse\ Now.avi

Looks like you forgot -ofps 23.976. (See all the duplicate frame
messages??) This is required for NTSC movie DVDs to fix the broken
telecine crap they use.

Rich