[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] "quicky" mode (was: complete documentation)

[Loren Merritt]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

>> 3) I have done something similar (just using different options on each
>> pass), but I ran 3 passes: first with almost nothing enabled (30 fps),
>> then with most options enabled (6 fps), then with everything (2.5 fps).
>> (This required setting both vpass=1 and vpass=2 for the middle pass.)
>> The result is about .10 psnr higher than just running 2 passes on slowest,
>> and is essentially identical to a full 3 passes on slowest.
>
> Hum... I already heard about people experimenting 3-pass encode, but
> haven't experimented it, as 0.1 PSNR looks to me as a small gain VS very
> long encoding process.

Sure, it wouldn't be worth it if it took 50% longer to encode, but if 
3-pass still works with turbo...

--Loren Merritt