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Old 20th May 2006, 09:34   #1013  |  Link
modsoul
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Quote:
Originally Posted by berrinam
Yes and no. Doing a second pass after a constant quantizer encode will pretty much not add anything, because it won't have a a proper first pass. However, a 2pass encode to the same filesize will look better, because 2pass is simply a better algorithm. You should never really use constant quant, because constant quality mode is better.

Nevertheless, 32 quantizer is always going to be bad. You should experiment with values between 18 and 26.
i tried 25. but that came out even worse. and when i checked the bitrate (while playing under media player classic) it was 30-40 Kbps.

is that right i thought lower quantizer was better. ?
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