[MPlayer-users] Re: Low bitrate using 2-pass with libavcodec

Rémi Guyomarch rguyom at pobox.com
Sun Apr 21 23:50:02 CEST 2002


On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:37:58PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 20:57, Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:06:31PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > >
> > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 18:56, Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> > > > Make sure you deleted frameno.avi before -pass 1.
> > >
> > > Why, it's used to copy audio from, so audio only needs to be
> > > compressed once!
> >
> > Because DOCS/encoding.html said so :
> >
> >    3-pass encoding : this is an extension of 2-pass encoding, where
> > ...
> >    rm frameno.avi remove conflicting temporary file
> > ...
> yea, but this tells to remove the old frameno.avi before the mencoder -ovc 
> frameno -o frameno.avi, but not before the -pass 1, so read the DOCS 
> properly! If you kill it just before -pass 1 you obviously can't copy audio 
> from that file anymore!

Huh, sorry I mixed up the whole thing !
In my mind "pass1" meant the first pass (the audio one).

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Rémi




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