[MPlayer-users] xvid

[Pablo Morales]

HI there.

My problem is that with that behavior, I cannot encode a movie in  2 CD for
example,  for example last night I encoded Equilibrium, the file ended up in
a 950 MB one!!, and the quality is not good!!, that's the real problem.
I was trying with transcode, but it's pure pain :))))

I'll try with xvid by the moment and see what happens.


Thanx for your time

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexei Khlebnikov" <a.khlebnikau at sam-solutions.net>
To: "Pablo Morales" <pablo.morales at abitab.com.uy>; "MPlayer usage questions,
features, bugreports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] xvid


> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:41:13 -0300
> "Pablo Morales" <pablo.morales at abitab.com.uy> wrote:
>
> PM> I've got a doubt, I'm encoding using xvid and I found me_quality,
range from
> PM> 0 to 6, how do I interpret that.
> PM> 0 better quality? or 6 better quality?
> PM>
> PM> Using xvid instead livac seems to solve  my problem that mplayer uses
the
> PM> bitrate it  wants regardless the one I specify in vbitrate=X
>
> LAVC MPEG4 codec don't use full bitrate if it is not needed, i.e. if
maximum
> quality with your settings has been reached. The common advice in this
case
> is to increase the resolution to gain more quality.
>
> If developers don't think its pointless - they can change LAVC codec so
that it
> uses P frames instead of (some) B frames, and/or I frames instead of
(some)
> P frames if bitrate allows. It will largely increase bitrate and slightly
improve
> quality. Maybe XVID does just that.
> (I will certainly be flamed for such suggestion :)