[MEncoder-users] Different versions, very different results

[Matyas]

Andrew Berg wrote:
> Matyas wrote:
>> I was not trying to target a bitrate.
>>
>> Both runs used crf=23 in the first pass, all the same parms.  At the end
>> mencoder prints the bitrate, which I will use in the second pass.
> Then why not just do a regular CRF encode? The only conceivable reason I
> could think of for doing CRF as a first pass of a multipass encode is to
> do tests. That is why I assumed you were targeting a bitrate.

I want to compare a one pass crf encode to a two pass encode with the first
pass being crf.  I will write stats for every frame (log=3) for comparison
over the whole movie.

There were a lot of discussions already here about the relative merits of one
pass versus two pass.  There were no consensus reached.  So I decided to do
my own tests...  (I do not want the one-pass versus two-pass discussion
reopened here.)

Thanks!
Matyas
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