Re: Space saving tips

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:27:23 +0200, herve.flores wrote:

>>> You force the output to be CBR at thrice the input bit rate. Seems
>>> normal that you get a file thrice as big.
>>
> use VBR and DO NOT REDUCE THE BITRATE (...do you want some "buffer  
> underflow"? ;-))))
> -b 9000 -maxrate 9000 -qmin 2 -qmax 20 -bf 2
> (and not just -b 4000 !)

Thanks Darren & Hervé for your kind explanation. 

Summary for now:

- Darren suggest to lower -b but Hervé said it will cause buffer
  underflow.
- Hervé suggested to use VBR, which is almost the same as what I used
 (-b 3600 -maxrate 4500 -sameq), but I was told that it is CBR.

hmm.., there seems to be still some confusions going on.

tong