[MPlayer-users] Re: chopping off credits

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:26:51PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >50 meg?!? Use vcr_override to encode them at low quality if it's
> >taking that much, but I would expect something more like 10-20 meg.
> >
> 
> If you use a high quantizer on text, it may become unreadable, depending 
> on how big the text is. Text requires more sharpness than typical 
> photographic scenes. That's why the credits at the end of a movie 
> broadcast on TV are often unreadable.

Try adding vf_creditblur to apply a strong blur only to selected frame
ranges... (writing this is left as exercise for the reader :) That
should help quite a bit. 

> later. When trying to fit a movie on one 700-800MiB CD-R, I've cut the 
> 
> of a mebibyte and much sharper than the MPEG-4 video would have been.

Are you just using these ridiculous-sounding units to annoy people, or
to try to "convert" people, or what? I've noticed them appearing at
least 3 or 4 times in your past couple posts...

Rich