I would remove keyint and vbitrate, and specify vqscale=3. If quality
is still disappointing, you could try using xvid instead.
It would be a great addition to Freevo, if you could specify the quality on each favorite/recording. You could use the values from 2-6 for quality and just pass that quality onto the mplayer "vqscale" variable. When recording with a vqscale of 6 produces a 250 meg file per hour and a vqscale of 2 produces a 1 gig file per hour.
