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																@chapter Tips | 
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																@c man begin TIPS | 
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																For streaming at very low bitrates, use a low frame rate | 
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																and a small GOP size. This is especially true for RealVideo where | 
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																the Linux player does not seem to be very fast, so it can miss | 
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																frames. An example is: | 
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																@example | 
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																ffmpeg -g 3 -r 3 -t 10 -b:v 50k -s qcif -f rv10 /tmp/b.rm | 
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																The parameter 'q' which is displayed while encoding is the current | 
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																quantizer. The value 1 indicates that a very good quality could | 
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																be achieved. The value 31 indicates the worst quality. If q=31 appears | 
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																too often, it means that the encoder cannot compress enough to meet | 
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																your bitrate. You must either increase the bitrate, decrease the | 
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																frame rate or decrease the frame size. | 
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																If your computer is not fast enough, you can speed up the | 
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																compression at the expense of the compression ratio. You can use | 
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																'-me zero' to speed up motion estimation, and '-g 0' to disable | 
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																motion estimation completely (you have only I-frames, which means it | 
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																is about as good as JPEG compression). | 
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																To have very low audio bitrates, reduce the sampling frequency | 
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																(down to 22050 Hz for MPEG audio, 22050 or 11025 for AC-3). | 
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																To have a constant quality (but a variable bitrate), use the option | 
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																'-qscale n' when 'n' is between 1 (excellent quality) and 31 (worst | 
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																quality). | 
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																@end itemize | 
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																@c man end TIPS | 
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																@chapter Examples | 
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																@c man begin EXAMPLES | 
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