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authorGravatar gpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-04-02 18:25:05 +0000
committerGravatar gpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-04-02 18:25:05 +0000
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Add a note explaining that it's okay to use a different target bitrate on the various passes of a video encode
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@@ -373,6 +373,19 @@ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:ts
</para>
</informalexample>
+<note><title>Hint:</title>
+<para>
+ 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.
+</para>
+</note>
+
</sect1>
<sect1 id="menc-feat-rescale">