[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem with mencoder

[Oliver Fromme]

rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > That's already too much.  For a 100 minutes movie, 10 kbps
 > > difference means about 7 Mbyte in file size.  But I want to
 > > calculate the file size as precisely as possible, so it
 > > will fit on an CD-R and use all the space.
 > 
 > Hmm, how exactly are you getting it so precise?  'frameno' only prints 
 > out values for 650/700MB, when an actual CD can hold more than that 
 > (that would be more than a 7MB difference right there)...

I only use 700M CD-Rs, so the values that frameno prints
are fine for me.  Even if they were not, I could easily
calculate them myself, since mencoder prints the bitrate
of the frameno.avi file.

On a related note ...  _If_ 3pass mode gets removed, then
will there be a different way to encode an audio-only AVI
from a DVD title?  I do need that for various other tasks,
e.g. when postprocessing a DVD title before encoding (for
multi-language support, changing aspect ratios and similar
things).  So far, I've always used -ovc frameno for that
purpose, which works perfectly fine.

Regards
   Oliver

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