[MPlayer-users] bitrate problem with -chapter ?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Maxence Lange wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to rip a j-pop dvd with
> 
> for i in `seq 1 21` ;
>   do 
>   [...]
>      mencoder -dvd 1 -chapter "$i"-"$i" -ovc xvid -oac copy [...]
>   [...]
> done
>   
> Even if I put some -xvidencopts [...]:bitrate=860, as long as I keep
> -chapter, my movie is encoded in a fscking too high bitrate. 
> Is that a feature ?

Most likely your chapters are so short that effective rate control
can't really be done. Try lowering the rate tolerance (if there's such
an option with xvid; I don't know if there is; try lavc instead too
since xvid is buggy!) and/or using 2pass encoding.

Rich