[MPlayer-users] Question about 3-pass encoding...

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:53:57PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:38:40PM -0800, RC wrote:
> > 
> > "3-pass" encoding has been depreciated for YEARS, and I believe it's use
> > is now disabled by default.  Whatever guide is recomending -ovc frameno
> > is severely out of date, and probably recomending many other options
> > that will either offer poor quality, or perhaps fail entirely.
> > 
> > I suggest you read the HTML docs on mplayerhq.hu instead.
> 
> 
> Well, I just read the HTML docs. 
> 
> Actually, it still recommends 3-pass encoding to hit a given size
> limit, i.e. first encode the audio, then calculate the bit rate, 
> and then do a 2-pass video encoding. The parameters have changed a
> little bit. 

Where does it say this???

Rich