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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm accessing a network stream
from Windows Media Encoder (vcodec is WMV3 acodec is wma2) and trying to
transcode it via VLC to broadcast it out.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is that no matter
what I specify for the vb, the broadcast stream always has a much larger
bitrate.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example, the encoded
stream I'm accessing from WME is 80K for video and 20K for audio. Then I try to
broadcast it as follows:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>--sout
'#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=80,acodec=mp3,ab=20,samplerate=22050,channels=2}:standard{access=mmsh,mux=asf,dst=:8010}'</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>(I also tried transcoding to
vcodec DIV3)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically what I'm doing is
copying the same bitrates of the WME output.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, what I get streamed
on 8010 is a video stream that is in excess of 500K bitrate. If I remove the
vb=80, then it's even worse, the bitrate streamed goes up to > 1500K.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is on linux, 0.8.6-test1,
but I behaves the same in previous versions of VLC.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looks like VLC is not being
able to detect the original bitrate? Why does it output such a high bitrate if
I'm forcing it to a certain bitrate using the vb parameter?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any
help</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=postbody><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Ricardo</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>