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The ffmpeg2theora chapter[1] of the Theora Cookbook says that the only advantage of two-pass encoding is that you can hit a specific target size. But isn't it so that you can reserve bits for difficult parts of a video, which improves the perceived quality? It may be true that Theora does quite alright without two passes, but it seems like a no-brainer to me that two passes will always be

Just patant thing put aside qualitywise how good is ogg vs mp3 and ogg theora video vs mp4, xvid ,h.264/x264 -- DARKLORD (:=

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Wow. Let me say that again, just in case you missed it. Wow. The quality looks to be on par with what I get out of H.264, but Theora has the added benefit of free and open source software with no patent worries so I can use it with a clean conscience. Thanks, everyone.