[MPlayer-users] Encoding in 16bits ?

[Eric Fernandez]

Arpi wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi,
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>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>I succeded to encode avi files for the Zaurus PDA, using 304 pixel width 
>>pictures and libavcodec. The result is fantastic.
>>However, since a PDA screen can display only 65000 colours (16 bits), is 
>>it possible to encode a movie in 16bits colour depth, in order to 
>>increase the quality for the same bitrate ?
>>I already looked in the man pages and docs, but did not find any 
>>options. Is there a possibility to do it ?
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>no
>it has no sense, read about MPEG somewhere
>it doesn't even use RGB colorspace so talking about rgb bits is nonsense
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>A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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Allright, thanks for the answer, did not know that. So the bitrate (and 
image size, of course) is the only way to modify the final avi file size ?

Eric