Re: [ivtv-devel] reported encoding rate

2005-01-31 Thread Joe Briggs
Thanks Kevin - I set the peak to be the base + base/4 and that seemed to bring the reported down and recording still looks good. Thanks! On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 01:41, kevin thayer wrote: > this is due to the mpegs being VBR. > > the speed reported in the stream is the upper-range of > the vbr ran

Re: [ivtv-devel] reported encoding rate

2005-01-29 Thread kevin thayer
this is due to the mpegs being VBR. the speed reported in the stream is the upper-range of the vbr range. (aka the peak bitrate) if you want them to be the same you'll have to lower the burst rate, but some scenes may suffer because of this. It has been brought up before and i think this is 'jus

[ivtv-devel] reported encoding rate

2005-01-29 Thread Joe Briggs
Is it possible that the MPEG stream created by IVTV on a PRV250 contains an incorrect bitrate? If I encode at 6 Mbps for 5 minutes, the file size looks correct. But if I play it with GXine or MPlayer, it reports at something substantially higher like 19.6 Mbps. I have tried the mpeg tool utility m