[MPlayer-users] libavcodec bitrate problems (NOVIRUS NODAEMON challenge-response systems suck)

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:25:50PM -0400, Matthew W. Miller wrote:
> For some reason libavcodec's ratecontrol is running at the exact same
> bitrates and producing the exact same data no matter what bitrate is
> requested in the command line.  Bizarre!  Does anyone have any ideas on 
> about which revisions/snapshots this started happening?

Have you checked the quantizer distribution? Perhaps all frames were
already q=2 so lavc couldn't use any more bits.

Rich