>...Who knows? But that is the only thing I changed (not any of the
>settings), and so having discounted all other possibilities the one that is
>remaining, however unusual, must be accepted (I think I'm paraphrasing
>somebody here...)
It seems odd to me as well; I'd more expect transcode to crash from
an overheated processor (which would obviously result in a short file, but
one of the same quality until the crash) than for the encoding quality to
change, though given the amount of data that transcode goes through, it's
certainly possible that corruption could show up in the output video before
affecting the transcode processes. Out of curiosity, did you ever happen
to check whether the undersized files were actually encoded all the way to
the end?
In any case, it's certainly an interesting anecdote; thanks for the
information. (And you're paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes, IIRC.)
--Andrew Church
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