Question when coding in GK

[Fire Foxer]

hi
when im ripping a movies in gk
someone told me that before i start i must to make sure that
the average bitrate should be the same in the second pass
he told me that herer:



and here :





should be same number
is it right? and why should it be that why?
thanks

[jagabo]

The average/target bitrate doesn't need to be the same in the second pass. The setting has no meaning during the first pass which is a fixed quantizer encode just to determine the relative compressibility of each frame.

Note that your Xvid dialog is set to Target Size, not Target Bitrate. Click on the button to change it to Target Bitrate.

[manono]

And you'll notice that the video size in the top pic (1848 KB, right below where you circled the bitrate) is the same as the target size in the bottom pic. The rest of the difference between that 1848 KB and your 2 MB final size is made up of the audio size and the muxing overhead.