Re: problems with target size with xvid.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 [email protected] wrote:
> > the second pass does not need the AVI from first pass, it's all in the
> > stats-file. That should contain one line of data per frame. Is it
> > possible that the file isn't written correctly? You might want to just
> > count the lines... If it's too short, then the codec doesn't know what
> > to do with the remaining frames and might encode them at a too low
> > fixed quant, causing the oversize.
> 
> I had this oversizing problem using gknot, and autogk with xvid on one movie, no 
> matter the settings :(

Yes, but could you check the stats-file after the encode? 

If e.g. for some reason mencoder crashes in the first pass just for 
this file, and the resulting stats-file is too short, then the second pass 
might turn out too large. 

chl