[MPlayer-users] mencoder: encoding with very low bitrate

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2003 15:56 schrieb Gejzir:

> source with a very low bitrate  (e.g. <300kb/s).  The goal is to create
> as small a file as possible (still viewable of course).  The problem I
> have, is that even if I set the bitrate very low, it does not seem to
> affect the file size.

How many seconds did you capture? At the beginning bitrate may be higher 
because "vratetol" defaults to 8000 (=1megabyte).
So you should at least capture more than 4MB or lower vratetol.

Matthias