Re: Bitrate/quality issues (comments on minutes)

> Agreed, bitrate is a horrible stand-in for quality. Not to mention I hate
> codecs/rate-controllers that try to keep a level quality (and drop
> bitrate when
> less is happening), compared to codecs that try to always provide the
> highest
> quality they can given a bitrate. (Eventually it hits diminishing

It depends on the timescale over which this is done, but even on scales 
up to a few minutes, people tend to judge the quality of a stream by the 
worst point in it, rather than the average.