[MPlayer-users] mencoder failing to encode at desired bitrate/filesize

[Ed Sweetman]

Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 27 May 2006 20:02, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>
>   
>> Results in a file that is about 350MB instead of the ~400 that the rest 
>> all encoded at.  Audio and video is complete in the avi, bitrate is 
>> about 300kbit/sec lower than the other files for video, audio is the same.
>>     
>
> How big is it after the first pass where bitrate is ignored?
>   

As you can see from the command line I gave in the email you responded 
to, the first "file" is sent to /dev/null, since it's totally useless 
anyway.