[MEncoder-users] Different versions, very different results

[Andrew Berg]

Matyas wrote:
> I was not trying to target a bitrate.
>
> Both runs used crf=23 in the first pass, all the same parms.  At the end
> mencoder prints the bitrate, which I will use in the second pass.
Then why not just do a regular CRF encode? The only conceivable reason I
could think of for doing CRF as a first pass of a multipass encode is to
do tests. That is why I assumed you were targeting a bitrate.