[MEncoder-users] Backup policies

[Phil Ehrens]

Michael Rozdoba wrote:
> infernix wrote:
> 
> > Note that this is a one-pass; you don't need a two pass unless you need 
> > a specific target bitrate. For archiving you shouldn't restrict yourself 
> > to a bitrate floor due to wasted space, nor ceiling due to quality loss. 
> > Hence a one-pass CRF. More technical info is on forums.doom9.org.
> 
> This is a naive question. I understand the above reasoning, I think, but 
> surely if one performs 1-pass crf, one will end up with some average 
> bitrate. Wouldn't a 2-pass encode with that same bitrate give better 
> quality due to superior distribution of bits?

Going even a bit further, since bitrate is per-second, and not
per-frame, isn't single-pass encoding always just plain wrong?
My own experiments support this contention.

And a disingenuous reference to the entire doom9 forum as support
is feeble.