[MPlayer-users] encoding with xvid does not honor bitrate argument?!

[Jan Knutar]

>   pass=1 means it will encode file to max. quality (for statistics)
> and will use this statistics in 2nd pass - and only there bitrate
> parameter will be used, if you want only single pass leave out the
> pass=1 part of xvidopts

That does not agree with my observations. The bitrate param seems to be
honoured pretty well on pass 1 everytime I've used mencoder+lavc.