[MPlayer-users] Re: Problem with mencoder

[Oliver Fromme]

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
 > rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> writes:
 > > Stefan Seyfried wrote:
 > > > It's time to remove 3pass encoding and instead provide a
 > > 
 > > However, you lose the advantage of not having to re-encode the audio in 
 > > the second pass.
 > 
 > just use "-oac copy" or "-oac pcm" in the first pass (which can go to
 > /dev/null), so you also only need to encode audio once (in the second
 > pass).

Please don't remove 3pss encoding.  Without it, it is difficult
(though not impossible) to estimate the bitrate when using VBR
mp3 audio, which I always do.

Regards
   Oliver

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