On 6/21/2010 3:56 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Nicolas George<nicolas.george<at> normalesup.org> writes: > > >>> Does anybody know how to set vorbis bitrate encoding options (lavcopts >>> acodec=vorbis:abitrate=xxx is ignored). I consistently get ~55 kbps >>> audio which sucks. >>> >> You can try aq=5. >> >> But you do not want to do that anyway: acodec=vorbis select the Vorbis >> encoder built into libavcodec, not the wrapper for Xiph's libvorbisenc. And >> this encoder is not good at all, it is only a proof of concept until someone >> undertakes to implement all necessary quality enhancements. >> > I don't disagree, but it should be added that a bug was fixed lately and > somebody claimed that the quality of the encoder isn't so bad (if you can live > with aq instead of abitrate). > > Carl Eugen > > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > I have modified my GUI to write the audio and convert separately via Oggenc. Not the most elegant approach but as it sounds the most reliable. /re