On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:44:45AM +0100, Carsten Koch wrote: > I thought that the whole point of mutipass divx encoding is to achieve > a better quality at the same bitrate. Am I wrong here? Are you sure > you specified the same bitrate for both experiments? > > And, just for benchmark purposes, have you tried a low bitrate for > both one-pass and three-pass, so you can see the differences easier? i'm not interested enough to find out. if 3-pass can't get noticably better results even with a significantly higher bit-rate (i tried it with VBR=1800) then it's not worth the time to experiment with the same br. at least, it's not worth my time. one-pass is good enough for me. quality is excellent, and size is good. craig -- craig sanders <cas@xxxxxxxxxx> (part time cyborg)