Re: problems with target size with xvid.

On 10 Mar 2005 at 17:31, Christoph Lampert wrote:

> 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
I will check into this. It seems to only do this on one particular 
movie. The others turn out fine. it's very annoying. it wont size the 
movie to fit on 1cd; and if I tell it to use 2cds, it wont be large 
enough to justify it.