[MPlayer-users] insane compulsive maniacal mencoder settings

[Jan Knutar]

> According to the docs, you can take the vorbis packets and crop off
> the end of them to reduce bitrate without breaking the stream. This
> may just be marketing propeganda though; I haven't checked it myself.

The design apparently allows this. There are no tools available to do 
it though, and nobody is really sure if the current encoder orders the 
data in a way that peeling off wouldn't make a totally horrible result.