scene and teh statistics gathered by the first pass. The encoder will most likely select in the first pass data a -v setting (quantisation matrix ?) to finally have an average bitrate that matches -V. So we both agree on this vision. If the developpers could confirm how it is supposed to work :D ? Regards -- ZikZak --0015174c123c6e4a8e0470bae3e1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM, rastersoft <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:raster at rastersoft.com">raster at rastersoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class=3D"im">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br> Hash: SHA1<br> <br> </div>Zik Zak escribi=F3:<br> > Hi,<br> <br> Hi Zik Zak:<br> <div class=3D"im"><br> > Yes you have to use the -V =A0switch, and you can also use the -v switch to<br> > specify a minimum quality at the same time.<br> <br> </div>Does that mean that -V specifies the average bitrate, and -v specifies,<br> in some way, the minimum bitrate?</blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br><br>I'm only an enduser of the codec so I can't be sure about the technical stuff.<br>From my point of view -v is used for a minimum quality, depending of the scene and teh statistics gathered by the first pass.<br> The encoder will most likely select=A0 in the first pass data a -v setting (quantisation matrix ?) to finally have an average bitrate that matches -V.<br><br>So we both agree on this vision.<br><br>If the developpers could confirm how it is supposed to work :D ?<br> <br>Regards<br>--<br>ZikZak<br></div></div> --0015174c123c6e4a8e0470bae3e1--