[MPlayer-users] [BUG] mencoder cannot encode to the required bitrate

[RC]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:03:24 +0800
陆然 <hephooey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> mencoder -v -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500 -o
> 
> test.avi rate_control.avi
> 
> I get a ~400 kbit/s result.

That's because the video is soft telecined.  Encode with -ofps
24000/1001 

You should have mentioned you get hundreds of "duplicate frames"
messages, or included the output.