[MPlayer-users] Which codec is fast and good?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:17:38PM +0200, LGW wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> 
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Hi, Richard Felker!
> >
> >Currently I record with 640x480 pixels on an Celeron 1700. I am very close 
> >to
> >100% CPU load here, but I get a really excellent quality meanwhile.
> >Though there are some questions and i want to please you for your kindly
> >answer:
> >2. compressing audio in a second pass:
> >  Idea sounds good, but wouldn't that increase the size of files dramati-
> >  cally? Well, a harddisk of 20GB is surely no good choice for recording
> >  videos, but I will still prefer a on-the-fly processing whenever
> >  possible. And isn't it more complicated to cut a file with vbr audio?
> >
> > 
> >
> AFAIK the avi format does not allow vbr for audio. Anyway, your system 

Yes it does.

> should be absolutly capable to manage audio & video compression in one pass.

The problem is denoise3d, but if he wants it, he'll need to upgrade or
wait to encode audio til the second pass.

Rich