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

[Grigori Goronzy]

Frederik Klama wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] 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 ???
> 

hm, i would try libavcodec for compression, e.g.
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=628

greg