[MPlayer-users] bitrate suggestion...

[Diego Zuccato]

Steven Adeff wrote:

> When encoding an mpeg to a 3-pass divx file after the audio encoding mencoder
> displays a list of suggested bitrates for various size CDR's. I was wondering
> if there was a way to get mencoder to show this information without doing any
> actual encoding?
Nope. But you can safely redirect the second pass of the 3-pass encoding
to /dev/null, just to speed up a bit (not much, really) and avoid
wasting disk space.

BYtE,
 Diego.