[Ffmpeg-devel-old] Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] Some tweaks to better respect max bitrate

[Mean]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> ok, i tried this patch, it lowers PSNR by 0.06 increases filesize and doesnt
> get rid of a single buffer underflow (12 before 12 after this patch)
>
> rejected
>
> command line used 
> ffmpeg -i ~/videos/xXx_DivX.avi -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -mbd 2 -an -pass 2 -b 300 -maxrate 400 -bufsize 60 -psnr test2.avi
>
>   

Hello,
    on typical SVCD type video it helped a bit, but without the "look in 
the future" part it is not enough
to get rid of the underflows, because in case a large intra comes in, it 
is too late to compensate.

   The "look ahead" part is used in a slightly modified xvid ratecontrol 
engine which glued to libavcodec
mpeg2 encoder works mostly (not 100 % perfect but much much better).

   The algorythm is to do predictors for I/P/B frames, compute a "shrink 
factor" compared to pass1
and project to the next half gop to see if we will run into trouble. If 
so increase quant until the
projection is safe (+ some tweak to reserve more space for the 1st intra).

It is a bit like what i done in lavcodec , before doing the 2nd pass, 
but it is done on the fly rather than
before doing the actual encoding.

The other way to do it would be, IMHO, to use a gop based ratecontrol in 
addition to the global ratecontrol, but it would work for mpeg1/2, 
probably not for mpeg4/...

Merry Christmas Eve :)