The Sample Clip was ripped from the German Concorde/Panasonic "Der Schakal" DVD using FlaskMPEG. It was directly encoded from the source mpeg2 data to the vp3 codec using its default options at a datarate of 180kbyte/sec (that's 1440kbps). Sound was ripped as 48kHz 16Bit Stereo PCM data and later demultiplexed from the AVI in VirtualDub and encoded with LAME using -V 4 -q 0 which resulted in a 48kHz 16Bit Stereo VBR-MP3 with an average datarate of 145kbps (thats roughly 18kbyte/sec) and then remultiplexed with the video in Nandub. The total calculated bitrate is 1440kbps + 145kbps = 1585kbps (~198kbyte/sec). The actual bitrate is 1384kbps (~173kbyte/sec) [encoded avi without sound] + 136kbps (~17kbyte/sec) [mp3 file] = 1528kbps (~191kbyte/sec) [multiplexed final opendml(?) avi with comments]. This shows that the codec not only has great quality (as you'll see from the sample which simulates a 2CD DVDRip case), but also has very well predictable datarate which makes it a nice choice for encoding DVD to CDROM. - Atmos, 2001-09-22-08:02-EST