[Libav-user] how to predict the size of destination clips

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Peter Steinbach <steinbach at ...> writes:

> > If you did not set a bitrate (but constant quality) then
> > it is impossible to calculate the output file size.
> 
> I doubt that.

What I wrote is true for "real" video codecs like mpeg1, 
h264 and hevc, it may be different for lzw-based codecs 
but I assumed they were not of relevance here.

Carl Eugen