[MPlayer-users] Question about 3-pass encoding...

[Hadmut Danisch]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:38:40PM -0800, RC wrote:
> 
> "3-pass" encoding has been depreciated for YEARS, and I believe it's use
> is now disabled by default.  Whatever guide is recomending -ovc frameno
> is severely out of date, and probably recomending many other options
> that will either offer poor quality, or perhaps fail entirely.
> 
> I suggest you read the HTML docs on mplayerhq.hu instead.


Well, I just read the HTML docs. 

Actually, it still recommends 3-pass encoding to hit a given size
limit, i.e. first encode the audio, then calculate the bit rate, 
and then do a 2-pass video encoding. The parameters have changed a
little bit. 

regards
Hadmut