[MEncoder-users] how do u set H264 video ID?

[belcampo]

U. George wrote:
>> Your options are kinda silly. why do you use two different encoding
>> modes together? You use qp=5 with pass=2.
> 
> My inquiry was that the Video ID did not get set via -vid, and that the 
> frameref did not get set to 2. bug(s)?
You select with -vid
Setting a vidID is not possible AFAIK
> 
> How one mencoder option influences the other options appears to be 
> beyond the man pages. For instance, Threads, it appears that the concept 
> of threading "May have a slight negative effect on motion estimation". 
> Should I beleive that?
Yes, single thread is able to check current/past and future frames, 
where multithreading cannot take the future-frame into account, because 
they are already being processed by another thread.

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