On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Joe Friedrichsen wrote: > In some over-curious testing, I think I ran into an upper limit (be it > unusable for any practical purpose) for -b. Any encoding with -b greater > than 15000 just doesn't work. Does anyone have any similar experiences?
Let me guess - you're trying to encode HD material :) You realize that mpeg2enc is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] encoder, right? ;) The larger frame sizes and higher bitrates belong to the higher levels - [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I recall (reference books are at home). > Does anyone know the upper limit of -b for 1.6.2? 1.6.2 had a bug that effectively made it impossible to do what you're trying to do (--no-constraints didn't really do anything). If you're running the cvs version (or the 1.6.3-RC2 release candidate - soon to be replaced by RC3) then you can *force* mpeg2enc to do something it's not designed for (and as the comments say "may expose bugs" ;)) with "--no-constraints". NOTE also that you'll need to increase the VBV with "-V" - a value of 488 is sufficient up thru HD rates, so "-V 488" (and you'll need to give the same value to mplex later on with '-b'). > Also, is there an irc channel for mjpegtools? Not that I am aware of. Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users