[MPlayer-users] reducing size of files while conserving the audio/video quality

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:06:17PM +0900, Maximo Ramos wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi there!!
> 
> I am running out of hard disk, and having a bunch of music videos, as well as
> many episodes of TV series (southpark, jackass), most of them in MPEG format,
> I've decided to reencode them to gain hard disk space.

Getting a CDR drive would be a much better choice. Reencoding will
damage quality quite a bit -- you'll have to make the movie look
significantly worse to get any significant reduction in size.

> I choosed vbitrate 800 because according with the man page that's the minimum, 

No, it says it's the default. 800 is actually much higher than you'll
normally use in practice!!


Rich