[MEncoder-users] Dies on completion of 2nd pass, no output file

[The Wanderer]

Rich Felker wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:35:55PM -0500, Pete Davis wrote:

>> In fact, I've done at least 400 encodings of various types of
>> source material with -oac copy on the first pass and -oac mp3lame
>> on the second.
> 
> You got lucky.
> 
> If you want to avoid encoding audio twice, do three passed:
> 
> 1: -lavcopts vpass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null dvd://1
> 2: -lavcopts vpass=2 -oac copy -o foo.avi dvd://1
> 3: -mc 0 -noskip -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -o bar.avi foo.avi
> 
> This will also prevent the a/v desync bugs in mencoder's lame support
> from messing up your movie.

Is this in the docs? I don't remember seeing a recommendation to this
effect get committed, and a quick glance at DOCS/HTML/en/menc* doesn't
turn up any similar lines. If accurate, which wouldn't surprise me, I'd
think that this would be a useful sort of recommendation to have around.

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