POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : War of the codecs : Re: War of the codecs II Server Time
7 Sep 2024 01:19:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: War of the codecs II  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 5 Nov 2008 14:41:34
Message: <4911f6ee$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I guess now I'll have to spend a few hours trying to get each codec to 
>> produce a file of roughly the same size so I can compare those...
> 
>   Remember to use multipass encoding for those codecs which support it.
> It will generally produce better results (although it might not with such
> a short video; doesn't hurt to try, though).

Yeah, I could certainly do that. I just haven't quite figured out how yet...

>   Usually it's done by selecing "multipass, 1st pass" or whatever option,
> encoding, then the "multipass, 2nd pass" and then encoding again. This will
> actually produce a viewable video.

I see the options. So, what, the first pass produces a video file that 
just isn't viewable, or...?

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