[MPlayer-users] mencoder and -noaspect

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:33:51PM +0100, Jean-Marc Stévenne wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi again,
> 
> Video encoding was neither working with 2 nor with 3 passes. When using the  
> -noaspect option it worked perfectly (in 2 passes, did not had time to test 
> with 3 passes).

Since you did not have time to test with three passes, I assume you
mean you tested only the -ovc frameno and the vpass=1 passes. This is
bad. You can'd to the pre-pass (-ovc frameno) with 50fps/interlaced
material. 2pass encoding means vpass=1 and vpass=2, skipping the
frameno pass.

Rich