[MEncoder-users] What's necessary in first pass of 2 passes

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 7/5/05, Pete Davis <pete at petedavis.net> wrote:
> I have a 2 pass encoding and it's kind of slow and I'm wonder if I can
> remove anything time consuming from the first pass without affecting the
> overall quality. I read the docs and I was a bit unclear on what could be
> removed and what couldn't be removed. This is from a bash script, so $1 is
> the input AVI.
> 
> I assume I can do the audio encoding in only one of the passes. Would that
> just be the second?

I'd do that in just the first pass.


> What about the deinterlacing filter? I assume that needs
> to be in there.

I don't think there's much to save by deactivating it.

> mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o /dev/null -vf pp=md -ovc
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:mbd=2:vpass=1:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -f
> fourcc DIVX -edl edit.edl -hr-edl-seek
> 
> mencoder $1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o newfile.avi -vf pp=md -ovc
> lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:mbd=2:vpass=2:vqmin=2:vqmax=31
> -ffourcc DIVX -edl edit.edl -hr-edl-seek

I'd say use "turbo"

Guillaume
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