[MPlayer-users] MEncoder and file sizes

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Well, I finally got mencoder to compile, after reinstalling with the latest
> version of Slackware. Looks very good, and thank you for this - I got a
> 1.8GB MPEG camcorder file down to around 800MB with this.
> 
> However, I'm having a bit of a problem. I have a bunch of half-hour,
> VCD-ready MPEG files at around 220MB each. When I run Mencoder on them,
> surprise surprise - they get LARGER! I've tried:
> 
> Source file:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     229271896 Nov 15 11:27 507.mpg
> 
> /usr/bin/time mencoder 507.mpg -v -ovc divx4 -oac mp3lame -divx4opts br=1500
> -lameopts br=128 -o 507.avi -pass 1

why are you surprised? vcd bitrate is around 1120, and you choose a bigger
value, 1500


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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