[MPlayer-users] lossless codecs make bigger files than raw DV ?!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:37:10PM +0100, Andrzej M. Ostruszka wrote:
> audio -> encoded with mp3lame with abr and br=64 (64 it's enough for me
> 	 - the sound recorded by the camcoder is not of top quality)

This is broken logic. For low-quality input, you need _higher_ bitrate
or else you'll make it much worse. I would recommend using normal vbr
(not abr) with q=8.

> video -> lavc with vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=2000:vpass=1/2 -vop pp=lb

At the very least, replace the outdated vhq with mbd=2 and use trell.

Rich