[MPlayer-users] mencoder: effective use of qp, crf params for x264?

[matthew.garman at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:08:59PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> You can think of crf as an option to select the average quality you
> want, qp as a constant quality mode, and "two pass" as variable
> quality mode.
> The difference between all of them is as follows:
> [...]
> I hope what I'm saying makes sense to your (I hope it's also quite
> accurate information. If it's not, I'm confident others will
> correct me).

Yes, thank you!  That definately makes sense (it actually simplifies
things for me).

Based on what you said, for my application (quality more important
than encoding time), two-pass is still the way to go.

Thanks again,
Matt