[MPlayer-users] Re: variable bitrate, fixed quality

[Nikolaus Rath]

Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net> wrote:
>> Ah, sorry... Apparently someone removed the old good explanation from
>> the manpage and put that crap in its place... :/
> 
> Libavcodec got more flexible, since it now allows the user to specify
> the ratecontrol function. Your explanation is only valid for the
> default function. So, what's there now isn't "crap"; it's correct. The
> plain English explanation of the default function should probably be
> there somewhere, probably under vrc_eq.

Unfortunately it isn't there. And I doubt that someone can use the
ratecontrol function feature with the given explanation.

   --Nikolaus