Weird, I know - but whatever I do, however I enter other values (by Calculate or by hand), the file that comes out is suspiciously large... and when asking Mpeg Info, 2500 kbps is always the answer... no wonder I couldn't tell any difference in my test encodes :P
I know it's not a bug in Mpeg Info, because I tried encoding a clip to 1500 using QT, and it identified it fine. What am I missing? (Knowing me, it's probably huge...)
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"I have not failed. I have only learned what does not work."
-Edison -
Following the standard, SVCD is always encoded at bitrate 2500. If you want to change the bitrate, you should also select profile = XSVCD (non standard-SVCD) in the VCD/SVCD tab.
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But when I choose XSVCD, the file format is changed to MPEG-1.
Will changing it back to MPEG-2 and then selecting another bitrate
give me a MPEG-2 file w the selected bitrate? Going to try that now...
Thanks for the answer
/W"I have not failed. I have only learned what does not work."
-Edison -
Originally Posted by Wizeman
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Choose the generic MPEG-2 option in the drop-down, not XSVCD. Set other settings as normal for SVCD standard. Doing this should produce a variable bitrate output that is also otherwise SVCD standard. I do this to produce DVD compliant streams, setting the options to DVD compliant choices.
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Trying that in the background now, when a thought occured to me...
Does your reply mean that mpeg2enc through ffmpegx is CBR?
Please forgive my newbieness... I am great at many things; intuitive grasp of video software isn't one of them :P
/W"I have not failed. I have only learned what does not work."
-Edison -
It's me again
Writing my earlier comment *while* the two others were being posted... when I updated the screen I saw that my questions had been answered already... d'oh! I promise; now I'll shut up for several hours before asking again"I have not failed. I have only learned what does not work."
-Edison -
Its my understanding that mpeg2enc produces variable bitrate streams for MPEG-2 and MPEG-1, which, in the latter case, causes choppy playback because it's not implemented well. Major recently added a "constant bitrate" checkbox to ffmpegX so you can get CBR streams.
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