[MPlayer-users] mencoder: ratecontrol.c:588: ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `picture_number<rcc->num_entries' failed.

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:28:27AM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Mark Zealey wrote:
> >#!/bin/bash
> >
> >while [ $# -ge 1 ]; do
> >	F="$1"
> >	shift
> >	rm -f divx2pass.log
> >	mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> >	vhq:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400:vpass=1 -o /dev/null "$F"
> >	mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lameopts preset=standard -lavcopts 
> >	vhq:vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400:vpass=2 -o "new.$F" "$F"
> >done
> >
> 
> By the way, using vqscale=2 for the first pass instead of vbitrate=x 
> works a lot better.

Are you just guessing, or doing actual tests (psnr or double-blind)?

Rich