[MPlayer-users] MEncoder 1.0rc2-4.2.1: xvid and vqscale

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/26/07, Kövesdi György <kgy64 at freemail.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I use constant quality quantizing with vpass=3 and xvid, the output does
> not depend on the SCALE value given to vqscale option. Using mpeg4, it works
> well.
>
> The commandline is:
>
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
>        vcodec=libxvid:vqscale=SCALE:vpass=3
>
> On the first pass (vpass=1) or in two-step mode (vpass=2) it works well. Only
> vpass=3 is not working.

Good, because It's not supposed to work. XviD doesn't support 3 pass
encoding, like lavc's own MPEG4 codec does.

:-)

Guillaume
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