From a1a54710e707fab85d81134ffe6ef5c68bd12b76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gpoirier Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:25:05 +0000 Subject: Add a note explaining that it's okay to use a different target bitrate on the various passes of a video encode git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@18023 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml index 1f6aacae25..cc7142e4ae 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml @@ -373,6 +373,19 @@ mencoder input.avi -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:ts +Hint: + + If for some reason the video quality of the second pass did not + satisfy you, you may re-run your video encode with a different target + bitrate, provided that you saved the statistics file of the previous + pass. + This is possible because the statistics file primary goal is to record + the complexity of each frames, which doesn't depend on bitrate. + You should note though that you'll get best results if all passes are + run with a target bitrate that does not differ too much. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3