[MPlayer-users] 2pass encoding... faster first pass?

[Mark Williams (MWP)]

> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:06:52AM +0930, Mark Williams (MWP) wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > Most of the time i use mencoder options similar to:
> > 
> > LAVC="vcodec=mpeg4:vqmin=2:vqmax=16:vmax_b_frames=2:vme=4:mbd=2:v4mv:keyint=250:vlelim=-4:vcelim=7:vstrict=0:mbcmp=3:precmp=0:cmp=0:subcmp=0:predia=1:dia=1:trell:aspect=4/3:vbitrate=$BITRATE"
> > 
> > VF="crop=$CROPXY,scale=$SCALEXY,pp=vb/hb/dr,hqdn3d"
> > 
> > Which gives VERY slow encoding, but great quality.
> > 
> > When doing 2pass video encodings can i use faster settings for the first pass,
> > then the above for the second pass?
> > Or do i need to use the same settings for each pass?
> 
> You can use faster -lavcopts, but I would advise against changing
> filters at all. Also, vlelim=-4:vcelim=7 probably lower quality, and
> same for vmax_b_frames=2 (use at most 1, imo, and maybe 0).

So what values would you sugest for vlelim & vcelim?

Also, ive tried setting vrc_buf_size to 1835 as sugested in the man page, but
when i do i get lots of "rc buffer underflow" messages (about one per encoded frame).
Do you know what is going on here?

Thanks,
 Mark Williams.