[MPlayer-users] RFC: docs update for "how to create a high quality DVD rip"

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, H du Plooy wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:25, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > OF-FUCKING-COURSE IT DOES!!! WHAT PART OF BITS PER SECOND DO YOU NOT
> > UNDERSTAND?!?! THERE IS NO UNIT OF "PIXELS" IN BITS PER SECOND!!
> I stand corrected.
>
> > Sorry for yelling but I am tired of listening to people who are
> > completely clueless and incompetent denying basic mathematical fact.
> What the specifications for bitrate in an mpeg stream is, has absolutely
> nothing to do with mathematics.  Stop insulting me.

What specification is this, that redefines bitrate?

To be fair, if you tell lavc (or any other lossy codec I know of) to
encode a 100x100 pixel video at 2 Mbit/sec, it would end up smaller than
a higher resolution video. But that doesn't mean that a bit has been
redefined. It just means that the codec has saturated (can't produce any
higher quality) and didn't give you the bitrate you asked for.

--Loren Merritt