[FFmpeg-user] why in the world does WMV ignore the bitrate

[Carl Lindqvist]

>> It appears that the encoder cannot compress the video any smaller with
>> your current settings. It is too large and/or too complex
>
> size does not matter, the problem is the unacceptable quality until i raise up to Mbit's
> ffmpeg -i 'input.mp4' -y -vb '20480k' -an -vcodec 'wmv2' -acodec 'wmav2' 'output.wmv'

Isn't wmv2 a really old codec? Even h264 would give bad quality for
1080p at bitrates lower than a couple of megabits at least.

/Carl L