[MPlayer-users] Re: twopass.stats file wrong, maybe a bug ?

[Michael Waters]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004, MrBlue wrote:
> for testing purposes i tried to encode 2 different .vob files to Xvid
> with mp3 audio. The first does fine, reducing the size from 55 to 14 MB
> at 1500.
> However the second one only compresses from 88 to 66 MB wich is the same
> size as in the first pass. 
> I was able to find the problem: while the first pass mencoder makes a
> file called "xvid-twopass.stats". IT grows and grows..if i look inside
> WHILE the pass, there a plenty of lines with numbers. But when the 1
> pass is done, the content of the file is the following:
> 
> # XviD 2pass stat file (core version 1.0.-126)
> # Please do not modify this file
> 
> i 2 1620 0 0 4504 4504
> 
> And that´s it !

This has happened to me too.  I reported it about a week ago but nobody
responded. :( anyways, you can try using '-endpos' and set it some
seconds short of the length of whatever you're encoding.

Michael