[MPlayer-users] Re: Should vqscale be used for first pass?

Jonathan Rogers jonner at teegra.net
Mon Jun 30 16:46:32 CEST 2003


Attila Kinali wrote:
> Yes, if you use vqscale it's likely that you get a bigger file for the
> first pass, but that doesnt matter.
> 
> It could be also a good idea to try different vqscale values to get
> the best result.

It seems you're correct. I tried reencoding a movie using vqscale=3 for 
the first pass, since the average quantizer had been about 3 the last 
time I encoded it. The PSNR of the second pass was slightly better than 
when I had used vbitrate for the first pass.

Jonathan Rogers



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