[theora] is --two-pass intended for target size only or also for better quality?

Remco remco47 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 05:53:22 PST 2009


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 13:26, Jiri Navratil <jiri at navratil.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can I achieve with --two-pass better quality for same size or
> --videoquality 5 is fine and I will not get any improvement?
>
> Thank you,
> Jiri

It's only for target size. The first pass will determine at which
quality settings to run the Theora encoder. Theora always gets the
maximum quality out of a particular file size. It won't get better
using two-pass encoding.

-- 
Remco


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