[MEncoder-users] x264 2-pass, FAAC, smearing

[John Ratliff]

RC wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:51:30 +0200
> GM <errgrr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> What instantly solves the problem is using:
>>
>> 1st pass: mencoder -ovc x264 -oac faac
>> 2nd pass: mencoder -ovc x264 -oac faac
>>
>> But this way you encode the audio _twice_
>>     
>
> It's not a bug, it's just inherently how MEncoder works.  It's been
> mentioned over and over again, and there are plenty of notes in the docs
> that you simply do not change your command line between pass 1 and 2,
> unless you want problems.
>
> The performance difference between using faac, versus -oac copy on the
> first pass, are likely quite insignificant.  And if it was a problem,
> you could do -oac copy twice, then run mencoder on the output file,
> encoding audio to whatever you want, while copying video.
>
>   
Have you tried -nosound instead of -oac copy? What about -vf harddup?

--John Ratliff