[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Known regressions

[Corey Hickey]

Rich Felker wrote:
>>> - [pre8 and SVN] the infamous "2pass curve failed to converge" problem
>>>   since ffmpeg r5422.
>> Yeah. That's been bothering me for a while. I'm going to verify the
>> problem is still reproducible and then ask on ffmpeg-devel if reverting
>> r5422 is at all acceptable.
> 
> It's not; the old code was just wrong. If you want to "revert" then
> make an explicit option to ignore the convergence failure since thats
> what the buggy old code essentially did. However I'm told that the
> problem only happens when you erroneously specify a bitrate that
> cannot be met given the qmin/etc. params.

I know. I was just going to reply and say I changed my mind. I re-read
the thread and realized I was mis-remembering what went on.

-Corey