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. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users