[MPlayer-users] mencoder: increasing bitrate doesnt increasequality or filesize...why?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Sorry, but...

On Monday, 01 March 2004 at 17:22, Pablo Morales wrote:
> I'm experiencing the same behavior, but I asume that something on my system
> went wrong, things were working fine, till a couple of weeks ago , no
> matters what I use, vqcale=2, or vbitrate=2000, 1500, 30000, I always end up
> with a file o about 700 MB of less with a vbitrate that start at about 30
> reaches 1000, then  goes down to 300, 250, 600, 900 and stays there.
> I just was instlling some libs, libfame, xvid and other stuff, I recompiled
> mplayer serveral time, removes things with configure, but no way..
> 
> I'll reinstall the whole OS and I'll try again

Don't you get the impression that you're doing something massively stupid?
It'd already been explained several times, that if the codec has already
reached its maximum quality, increasing bitrate won't make any difference.

Geez, where do you people get these ideas anyway?

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