[MPlayer-users] encoding with xvid does not honor bitrate

[Michal Seliga]

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:28:09 +0200
> From: Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi>
> To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] encoding with xvid does not honor bitrate
>  argument?!
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> >   pass=1 means it will encode file to max. quality (for statistics)
> > and will use this statistics in 2nd pass - and only there bitrate
> > parameter will be used, if you want only single pass leave out the
> > pass=1 part of xvidopts
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> That does not agree with my observations. The bitrate param seems to be
> honoured pretty well on pass 1 everytime I've used mencoder+lavc.

Yes, but wjhat you wrote is true for lavcodecs and what I wrote is true for xvid