Originally committed as revision 15969 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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Use same video quality as source (implies VBR). |
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@item -pass @var{n} |
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-Select the pass number (1 or 2). It is useful to do two pass |
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-encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first |
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-pass and the video is generated at the exact requested bitrate |
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-in the second pass. |
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+Select the pass number (1 or 2). It is used to do two-pass |
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+video encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first |
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+pass into a log file (see also the option -passlogfile), |
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+and in the second pass that log file is used to generate the video |
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+at the exact requested bitrate. |
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On pass 1, you may just deactivate audio and set output to null, |
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examples for Windows and Unix: |
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@example |
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@end example |
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@item -passlogfile @var{file} |
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-Set two pass logfile name to @var{file}. |
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+Set two-pass log file name to @var{file}. Default name is |
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+@file{ffmpeg2pass-N.log}, where N is a number specific to the output |
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+stream. |
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@item -newvideo |
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Add a new video stream to the current output stream. |