Bug#810224: /usr/bin/avconv: ogg format: unable to use pass and quality? options together

Balint Reczey balint at balintreczey.hu
Fri Feb 26 21:42:14 UTC 2016


Hi Carl,

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:55:52 +0100 Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When encoding with FFmpeg, you can either use fixed quality or fixed bitrate 
> (size), if you decide to use fixed bitrate, two-pass encoding improves the 
> output quality.
> It makes no sense to use two-pass constant quality encoding, the result of 
> using two contradicting options is undefined.
> 
> Please close this ticket as invalid.
I think if two options a contradicting then ffmpeg should refuse
accepting them instead of starting the conversion of the file.
IMHO this is a valid upstream bug, but upstream can decide to leave it
unfixed, of course.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Balint



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