Carl Karsten wrote: > I am writing code to transcode .dv files to .ogg and upload to > blip.tv. one blip requirement is the files have to be under 1gig. I > am generally working with 30-45 min of ntsc, which results in .ogg > about 600mb. sometimes a talk goes long, like hour or so, and using > the same bitrates I get 1.1gig, which gets rejected, and so I have to > go fix it.
Well, since even high-action can be preserved at 1200 kbps using 2-pass, you must be doing something dramatically wrong. A "talk" can be preserved perfectly at 600 kpbs, which would give you more than 2 hours per Gb. What encoding parameters are you using? What is the quality of your source? Can you provide a screenshot?
