[streaming] Re: Control flow rate

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Eric Knapp wrote:
> How does the transcoding work...?  I looked through VLC preferences and 
> couldn't any way to do it.
> 
Do you use vlc- CVS version? You need to enable the advanced options I 
think.

> On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 04:56  AM, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> 
>> Eric Knapp wrote:
>>
>>> I could be wrong, but I think what he's looking for is a way to 
>>> control the bit-rate of the MPEG stream.  I also have use for this.
>>> Basically, take a DVD and stream it at 3Mbps instead of 8Mbps (or 
>>> whatever it ends up being when you stream a DVD).  This would require 
>>> VLC to compress the video to a lower bit-rate before streaming it.
>>
>>
>> I do not think an already encoded video can be further compressed with 
>> alot of gain. If he wants to lower the used bitrate of a video then he 
>> should revert to transcoding (actively lowering video quality and 
>> bandwidth requirements). VLC CVS comes already with some transcoding 
>> capabilities.
>>

Grtz,
Jean-Paul



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