[MPlayer-users] 2-pass mpeg-2

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> 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?

On 22.06.10 21:18, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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.

according to the docs, with constant quantizer I can waste disk space
and that 2-pass encode can get me better quality that given vqscale.

I would prefer static quality in way similar than vorbis encoder tried to
have but it seems constant quantizer does not do this (and constant bitrate
too)

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