[MPlayer-users] Re-Encoding 200MB MPEG1 file to divx4 (br=628) fills hd

[Frederik Klama]

On Friday 26 April 2002 21:17, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> On Friday 26 April 2002 21:44, Frederik Klama wrote:
> > I have used the following line to start mencoder:
> > mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=3 -ovc divx4 -divx4opts br=628:q=1
> > -o target.avi source.MPG
>
> change that q to q=5 or a bit lower, at q=1 divx4/5 is skipping almost the
> whole compression, so data get's huge, it's though for live capturing from
> tv and stuff, where mainly speed matters.

It makes no difference if I have q=1 or q=5 set. :(
But should't the bitrate determine the size ???

Frederik Klama