[MPlayer-users] Encoding "dark" movies

[Stephan André Schmidt]

Hello,

when encoding "dark" movies like "Panic Room" or "From Hell", the assumed 
bitrate to end up in a divx about 1400 MB, i.e. about 1390 for "From 
Hell", does end in an avi of around only 900 MB (3-pass encoding). Giving 
the bitrate of about 1200 to mencoder does not make any difference to the 
file size of the avi; it is also around 900 MB. Are there any special 
filters or options to libavcodec handling this kind of "dark" movies, so 
that the "calculated" avi size will be reached after encoding?

The command line for mencoder has been:

(have encoded the audio first), then -->

nice -+19 mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device $DVD_DEV -oac copy -o /dev/null -ovc 
lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1386:vhq:vpass=1:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 
-vop scale=640:352,crop=720:434:0:74

wait

nice -+19 mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device $DVD_DEV -oac copy -o from_hell.avi 
-ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1386:vhq:vpass=2:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -vop 
scale=640:352,crop=720:434:0:74

Thanks for hints,

Stephan