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

[Alexei Khlebnikov]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:03:36 +0000
Adam Rice <adamrice at ntlworld.com> wrote:

AR> Quoting Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik at rangers.eu.org):
AR> > Don't you get the impression that you're doing something massively stupid?
AR> > It'd already been explained several times, that if the codec has already
AR> > reached its maximum quality, increasing bitrate won't make any difference.
AR> 
AR> Doesn't it strike you as odd that mencoder can't manage a bitrate much above
AR> 1kbps? It seems unlikely to me that the "maximum quality" for MPEG4 would be
AR> less than the maximum quality for MPEG2. I was under the impression that MPEG4
AR> was MPEG2 plus some extra tricks for handling lower bitrates.

It was said many times but I'll repeat:
Do not scale down too much! Resolution limits the quality of your output!