The VideoLAN Forums

I noticed that the maximum selectable bitrate for transcoding video in the GUI is 3092 or so. Thinking about HD-resolutions, this is way too low. I tried with the command-line and found out that e.g. mp2v would allow max. 15000kbit/s (higher values are interpreted as bit/s). This is still a bit low for MPEG-2-HD, but much better.
I think it would be important to make higher values possible in the GUI, best would be, dependent of the selected codec (if the max. supported bitrate is known).

you can specify any bit rate that you want by editing the MRL

hmm, is it possible to modify the MRL when using the GUI? Without GUI it returns to the problem of getting the right parameters, see viewtopic.php?p=43906
Btw, why is the max. bitrate 3092k? Are this restriction caused by a codec?

you can change the MRL at the top of the stream output dialog. The limit is just because we didn't want to have 1000 items in the drop down list. We should maybe use a slider instead.