On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Dik Takken wrote:
> > bandwidth. Why does the CBR encoder not use -q 4 to keep the bitrate 
> > as high as the requested bitrate?
> 
>       Because -q enabled VBR mode? ;) In 'cbr' mode the '-q' setting 
>       is ignored because the encoder is controlling it and I have seen
>       the effective -q go down to 3 or less.
> 
>       With CBR the encoder will vary the 'quality' - look at the "quant="
>       lines that get logged and you'll see the effective "-q" as the 
>       encoder is running.  

I thought that Dik meant the effective -q never went below 8, even though
it go have gone all the way to 4 and still be within the target bitrate.



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