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  1. Bug #356322
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Comment 1 for bug 356322

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 356322] [NEW] using -qscale in ffmpeg doesn't have any effect on coding

Nido Media <email address hidden> writes:

> using ffmpeg comming with ubuntu jaunty (which is FFmpeg version
> 0.5=-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu4); usage of the -qscale rather then -b
> doesn't change the end result file size. In fact; coding a flv video five times
> with qscale going from 1 to 5 has no effect; using 25 doesn't quite make the
> video any smaller or less nice to watch.

could you please check if that also happens with the latest version from
trunk?

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