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For me it had a big advantage, as I could not get VLC to encode at a low enough bitrate. What I was doing was streaming some live TV from one PC to another over the internet, using DSL. This meant I was limited by the DSL upload speed (which is around 400 kbps). We needed software which could: - cap...

I posted some followps to this issue on this thread
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I switched to using Microsoft Media Encoder and that worked perfectly.

My extensive testing has shown that VLC seems limited to the amount of compression it will do - feed it a large bitrate input, and it simply will not encode at a low value. Unless there is some additional setting I've not been able to find. I gave up and tried Windows Media Encoder - this worked per...

I've done some more investigation, which hopefully will be of use to someone.. What I found is that there seems to be a limit to how much compression VLC will do, and it varies depending on the size and/or bitrate of the original material. In my previous post - where the source was a DVD quality MPE...

I just posted to one of the other threads mentioned in this one. This is still a problem in the latest version. It is only a problem with low bitrates. Select a bitrate of 2048 and that's more or less what you get. Select 1024 and you get that. But select anything under 1024, and I get more or less ...

I am also seeing this issue. I understand the way VBR works, and that it is a target bitrate, but that does not explain what I am seeing. I've tried different codecs and the same thing happens. If I use a bitrate of say 3072k, and I monitor the bandwidth used, I see that it overs right around 3000-3...