[MPlayer-users] 2-pass mpeg-2

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:46:15PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> is it worth to encode mpeg-2 files in more passes?
> All docs say about divx/mpeg4, so just to be sure.
> Are there some notable differences?

Yes, if you _have_ to use bitrate-based encoding.
Otherwise the easier solution to get consistent
quality is to use vqscale instead of specifying
a bitrate.