[MPlayer-users] 2pass encoding... faster first pass?

[zikzak at tele2.fr]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:06:52 +0930
"Mark Williams (MWP)" <mwp at internode.on.net> wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>Most of the time i use mencoder options similar to:
>
>LAVC="vcodec=mpeg4:vqmin=2:vqmax=16:vmax_b_frames=2:vme=4:mbd=2:v4mv:keyint=250:vlelim=-4:vcelim=7:vstrict=0:mbcmp=3:precmp=0:cmp=0:subcmp=0:predia=1:dia=1:trell:aspect=4/3:vbitrate=$BITRATE"
>
>VF="crop=$CROPXY,scale=$SCALEXY,pp=vb/hb/dr,hqdn3d"
>
>Which gives VERY slow encoding, but great quality.
>
>When doing 2pass video encodings can i use faster settings for the first pass,
>then the above for the second pass?
>Or do i need to use the same settings for each pass?
>
>Thanks!

Hi,

You can use the option turbo of lavcopt to boost the first pass, remove it for the second pass.

Regards
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ZikZak