[MPlayer-users] Re: file size falls short of 700MB for multi pass

[Stefan Baehre]

Jonathan Rogers wrote:

> So, for the first pass, there are actually four permutations:
> 
> vqscale=2, no vbitrate (defaults to 800)
> vqscale=2, vbitrate=desired bitrate
> no vqscale, no vbitrate (defaults to 800)
> no vqscale, vbitrate=desired bitrate

Nonsense. Quantisation and bitrate depend on each other. You should
specify either vqscale *or* vbitrate. IIRC vqscale has higher
priority and vbitrate is ignored.