[MPlayer-users] Re: encoding quality - bpp, resolution, quants and quality

[Jonathan Rogers]

HR wrote:
> Well, my script can ofcourse be buggy, but I'm using bpp (or actually,
> bpb, since that's a tad nicer when doing non-float math) as an input
> value to find the best resolution, also considering the AR. So if the
> resulting bpp isn't what I asked for, it's the decoder to blame given my
> script does its math right. I can supply the resolution and bitrate and
> such for someone to verify the sanity of my script... Trying a slightly
> increased resolution now for a bpp of 0.171, but there's already smoke
> coming out of my Athlon encoder "slave", so it'll be a few hours... ;)
> If the quants still are all 2 then I don't know... (no, I'm actually
> *not* using fixed_quant=2 or anything like that...)

I was asking whether the actual bitrate matched the expected bitrate.

Jonathan Rogers