FFMPEG setting wrong bitrate in M2V

[DEmberton]

Hi,

I'm converting from a raw YUV to M2V using ffmpeg, but it seems ffmpeg sets the wrong bitrate in the header info of the file. I used the -b option to set the bitrate, which works, but the file has the bitrate set to all 0xffs (which is something like 1Gb/s).

Does anyone know how I can make ffmpeg do the right thing, or alternatively, of some command line tool that will set the correct values afterwards.

Thanks.

[ChrissyBoy]

I think you need the -maxrate parameter as this equates to the nominal bitrate in a mpeg video stream. -b is the average bitrate.

[DEmberton]

Thanks. That was the answer.