[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem with mencoder

[Oliver Fromme]

rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > I only use 700M CD-Rs, so the values that frameno prints
 > > are fine for me.  
 > 
 > I was actually refering to the fact that 700MB CDs really hold about 
 > 703MB normally, and about 720MB with overburning.

Well, I tend to trust only what is guaranteed, and those
80min CD-Rs guarantee 700 MB.  Actually, the CD-Rs that
I usually buy have a safety margin of 12 seconds (i.e.
they can hold 80:12), which is 704.8 Mbyte when recording
with ISO9660 mode1.

 > > Even if they were not, I could easily
 > > calculate them myself, since mencoder prints the bitrate
 > > of the frameno.avi file.
 > 
 > Of course, you could do the same, entirely without frameno.avi.

How?  When using VBR encoding, the final average bitrate
cannot be determined without actually encoding the whole
thing.

Regards
   Oliver

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