[MPlayer-users] mencoder failing to encode at desired bitrate/filesize

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 28 May 2006 at 03:24, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> RC wrote:
> >On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:33:19 -0400
> >Ed Sweetman <safemode at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>As you can see from the command line I gave in the email you responded
> >>to, the first "file" is sent to /dev/null, since it's totally useless 
> >>anyway.
> >>    
> >
> >Mencoder will still tell you how many bytes of video/audio it output.
> >  
> 
> 
> Just re-ran the first pass just for the sake of argument.  It comes out 
> to just about the exact same thing that the second pass does.

Try allowing mencoder to use q=1, i.e. add :vqmin=1:lmin=1.0 to lavcopts.

Regards,
R.

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