[MPlayer-users] insane compulsive maniacal mencoder settings

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:23:00PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > IMO, the ideal situation would be to encode the audio track at max
> > quality with vorbis, then use vorbis's scalability features to crop
> > to the desired average bitrate in a second pass, without having to
> > re-encode.
> 
> Are you refering to the not-yet implemented scalability features?

According to the docs, you can take the vorbis packets and crop off
the end of them to reduce bitrate without breaking the stream. This
may just be marketing propeganda though; I haven't checked it myself.

Rich