[MPlayer-users] Convert NTSC to PAL for DVD

Giacomo Comes comes at naic.edu
Mon Sep 18 04:35:35 CEST 2006


On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:25:24PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 15:21 -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > In your case the main reason for the difference in the file
> > size is that you didn't add b-frames. If you add 2 b-frames
> > the file size will be about 20% smaller.
> I'm not really familiar with b-frames.  How do I add this in my case?
> I've looked through all the options for lavc that refers to b-frames,
> but I'm unsure.

-lavcopts vmax_b_frames=2

Giacomo

> 
> I have figured out that the bitrate reported is the max bitrate set, not
> the average.  So if I bring the average down, it works, but it's trial
> and error, and re-encoding a couple of times over in some cases.
> 
> Thanks
> Hans



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