[MPlayer-users] Re: file size falls short of 700MB for multi pass

[Jonathan Rogers]

Jason Pepas wrote:
>>No, it almost certainly doesn't mean that more bits wouldn't improve
>>quality. Libavcodec's rate control is far from perfect. For most movies,
>>it gets pretty close, but on some, it uses way too few bits. So far, the
>>only way I've been able to fix it is to reencode, specifying a higher
>>bitrate.
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> thanks

Unfortunately, that wasn't a very satisfactory answer. I've been 
struggling with the very same thing. Perhaps someone on the list has 
insight into labavcodec's rate control? There are a number of settings 
that can be changed, including the actualy function used for rate 
control. I just don't know where to begin.

Jonathan Rogers