[MPlayer-users] 3 pass encoding: scaling and bitrate

[rcooley]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:10:42 -0300
Marcos Dione <mdione at grulic.org.ar> wrote:

> my question is if the
> suggested bitrate is still valid, even if I scale down the movie.

Yes.  Bitrate is the ammount of bits per-second.  It has nothing to do
with the video size.  As long as you don't change the length,
everything will be fine.

Incidentally, expect potential a/v sync problems with 3-pass encoding. 
It is not recomended for that reason.