[MPlayer-users] arg, frustration with 3 pass divx encoding...

[christopher j bottaro]

hehe, i guess i'm mad...;)  i just checked the length of lord of the rings and 
yes, it is a couple of minutes shy of being 3 hours long.

so the recommended bitrate is correct, but that still doesn't explain why the 
end result is around 100mb less than 700....?

thanks again,
christopher

On Sunday 05 January 2003 08:35 pm, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > ok, i just did a 3 pass encoding of 'lord or the rings' to test my new
> > dvd2divx.pl script.  i'm quite disappointed.  the final divx file is not
> > near 700 mb.
>
> maybe your script is buggy...
>
> > recommended vbitrate from first pass: 416
>
> are you sure it's correct?
>
> assuming 600 MB video (left 100mb for audio) 416kbit means 11538 seconds
> (3.2 hours) long video... so either you're mad (encoding 3+ hours video to
> 1 cd) or 416 is just wrong value for a 700mb cd.
>
> > i thought the whole point of the 3 pass method was to get a very good
> > approximation of the vbitrate so that the resulting file would be very
> > close to your desired size.  i could have >guessed< a better bitrate with
> > a one
>
> yes
>
> > time pass and gotten better quality....;)  so obviously i'm doing
> > something wrong.
>
> yes
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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