[MPlayer-users] How to encode MPEG-2 at a fixed rate with mencoder?

[Graham Bleach]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Levente Nov?k wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I would like to encode with mencoder using the FFmpeg mpeg2video codec, 
> with a bitrate of 2500 kbit/s (SVCD spec). When vbitrate=2500 is fed to 
> lavcodec, part of the movie has always a much higher rate (about 5000 
> kbps) which is much too high.
> I tried several combinations of the lavcodec rate options, but without 
> success so far. The best was to specify a significantly lower rate to 
> have (most of) the stream peak at 2500 kbit/s.
> Is this issue solvable, or should I ask for help on the FFmpeg mailing list?

Try downloading & compiling the ffmpeg application itself. It worked,
for me, in several ways that mencoder didn't.

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