[MEncoder-users] So does "target size" in xvid actually do anything?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 16 Sep 2011, at 19:37, Padraig Hogan <padraig_hogan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I steered clear of target size before, but I thought I'd give it 
> another go. This time I would encode the audio first and then the video. The following is the relevant part of my batch file:  
> 
> 
> if %2==2 "C:\mencoder\mencoder" %1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128 -ovc copy -o %1.btw
> if
> %2==2 "C:\mencoder\mencoder" %1.btw -oac copy -ovc xvid -xvidencopts 
> bitrate=-1024000:threads=2 -vf scale=720:-2 -sub %filename:~0,-4%srt" 
> -utf8 -subfont-text-scale 2.7 -o %1.avi
> del %1.btw

Uh, you do know that specifying a desired size does (and by design can) only work for the second pass of a 2-pass encode?