[MPlayer-users] MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.2.1: xvid and vqscale

[RC]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:15:55 +0200 (CEST)
Kövesdi György <kgy64 at freemail.hu> wrote:

> If I use constant quality quantizing with vpass=3 and xvid, the output
> does  not depend on the SCALE value given to vqscale option.

Using qscale with any vpass setting makes no sense.  vpass won't do
anything, if you're not encoding to a specified bitrate.

> The commandline is:
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
>        vcodec=libxvid:vqscale=SCALE:vpass=3

If you want to use xvid, you'd be better off using it directly (-ovc
xvid) rather than through lavc.