On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:56:31 +0000 Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote: > Does mencoder have a limit on the bitrate when generating MPEG2? The > last couple of times I've tried to convert films from H264 to DVD > using DeVeDe or entering a similar mencoder command line manually, I > end up with a file of only 2-3GB instead of the >4GB I want. IIRC > when I tried to increase the bitrate manually I got an error message > saying it was too high or something, but it can't have been out of > spec because most DVDs have a higher bitrate. uh? define a command line you used, please... and the error message ;)