[MPlayer-users] 3 pass encoding: scaling and bitrate

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:43:17PM -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:22:53PM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> > > my question is if the
> > > suggested bitrate is still valid, even if I scale down the movie.
> > 
> > Yes.  Bitrate is the ammount of bits per-second.  It has nothing to do
> > with the video size.  As long as you don't change the length,
> > everything will be fine.
> 
>   I forgot to mention that the bitrate I was talking about was the ones
> suggested to fit cd boundaries (e.g, 700MiB). since I will be (down) scaling,
> wouldn't that bitrate be inaccurate? I think that downscaling should allow me to
> increase bitrate...

Huh?? Does downscaling change the length of the movie in time? Does it
change the number of bits on a cd??? If the answer to these questions
is no (and it is!) how the hell do you expect downscaling to let you
increase the bitrate???

Rich