uncontrollable maxrate

[tito13kfm]

Is there a viable solution to get ffmpeg to honor the -maxrate that you specify? No matter what I do it just ignores it. I even tried changing the rate control equation back to an older one 1+(avgTex/Tex-1)/qComp (or something like that) and still no avail.

Also ffmpeg never seems to do a second pass even when I specify it. It complains about not having the correct log file, so I create the file, but then it just does it's normal 1 pass and still have terrible bitrate spikes.

This is MPEG2 encoding fyi.

I'm running windows xp pro, athlon xp 2600+. latest CVS version of ffmpeg (01/27/04) compiled using msys and mingw. Is this just something that I have to live with for now? (my set-top usually makes it through the spikes, I just can't fast forward past them, I have to let it play for that few seconds)

Sorry for posting this here. but it's the closest thing to a ffmpeg forum that I could find.)

[major]

You should post this to the ffmpeg-developer mailing list on sourceforge.