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Post #781524

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RU.08
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Info wanted: General Encoding Question from Projects - Scripters opinions wanted.
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17-Jul-2015, 10:03 PM

Well xvid didn't have crf (constant rate factor), it only had cq (constant quantizer) which is not the same. x264's 2-Pass works exactly as it should, if it didn't then CRF wouldn't work either since CRF is based off the same principal as 2-Pass - that is it keeps constant quality. CQ does not... it aims to keep the quantizers to a constant level, even when a scene doesn't need it, therefore 2-Pass will give you a better quality output at the same size as CQ-based encode.