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

[Jonathan Rogers]

Lubomir Blaha wrote:
> It will not work :(
> I had same problem and this strange behaviour can be suppressed with
> vqmin=2 and vqmax=9 in -lavcopts.
> 
> Example:
> 1st pass (audio) done
> 2nd pass (1st video)
> mencoder source -oac copy -ovc lavc -o /dev/null -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1835:vqmin=2:vqmax=9:vpass=1
> 3rd pass (2nd video)
> mencoder source -oac copy -ovc lavc -o dest.avi -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1835:vqmin=2:vqmax=9:vpass=2
> 
> maybe in 3rd pass vqmin=2 and vqmax=9 is needless (values are taken from 2nd
> pass text file), but I'm lazy edit whole line in shell history and this works
> too :).
> 
> With this options, the encoded file's bitrate have exact desired value.

I will definitely try using vqmax=9 next time.

Jonathan Rogers