Bitrate, framerate and resolution set independently?
Posted: 13 Dec 2013 15:23
Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. Just want to congratulate you all on developing and maintaining a great app. I makes me really happy to see an active ongoing open source community 
I'm experimenting with video transcoding, and found myself in a dilemma regarding the setting for bitrate, frame rate and resolution. Let me first give you my definition of these terms.
resolution - number of pixels per frame
frame rate - number of frames per second
bitrate - number of bits per second required for playing the video. It is defined as resolution * frame rate * bits per pixel.
The window in VLC that confuses me is Play->Stream->Next->Transcoding Profile (edit) -> Video codec. It allows me to specify all the three values independently.
Why is it sensible to set the resolution to 1000x1000, framerate to 100 and bitrate to just 1kb/s. Is this just some missing field validation in VLC, or am I missing something with the basic concepts?
I'm experimenting with video transcoding, and found myself in a dilemma regarding the setting for bitrate, frame rate and resolution. Let me first give you my definition of these terms.
resolution - number of pixels per frame
frame rate - number of frames per second
bitrate - number of bits per second required for playing the video. It is defined as resolution * frame rate * bits per pixel.
The window in VLC that confuses me is Play->Stream->Next->Transcoding Profile (edit) -> Video codec. It allows me to specify all the three values independently.
Why is it sensible to set the resolution to 1000x1000, framerate to 100 and bitrate to just 1kb/s. Is this just some missing field validation in VLC, or am I missing something with the basic concepts?