[MPlayer-users] Re: funky newbie problem

[Diego Zuccato]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

> With that said, I've had relative success encoding it myself. The
> commands I used were the following, but you could probably go ahead
> and use bitrate 800 on the first pass if you don't care about the
> pass1 filesize coming out too big.
Which file ? divx2pass.log ? Its size shouldn't depend on bitrate, IIUC.
Outfile ? Can safely be set to /dev/null (it speeds things up quite a
lot...).

> mencoder lavc_enc_prob-original.avi -vop scale=656:352 -lavcopts \
> vbitrate=720:vhq:vratetol=500000:vqcomp=0.9:v4mv:vcelim=9:vpass=1
> 
> mencoder lavc_enc_prob-original.avi -vop scale=656:352 -lavcopts \
> vbitrate=800:vhq:vratetol=500000:vqcomp=0.9:v4mv:vcelim=9:vpass=2
Err... Did I miss something here? I thought that first and second pass
should have to be IDENTICAL, except for vpass and outfile. What's the
meaning of a bitrate change?

NYtE,
 Diego.