[MEncoder-users] h264 3-pass mode

[Joe Emenaker]

Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Justin Randall wrote:
>> This is the way that x264 and mencoder chose to implement the pass
>> filter. Don't ask me why they did it that way, it probably made the
>> most sense at the time.
> Because it still makes the most sense to me. First pass is pass=1 and 
> last pass is pass=2 because that's how they were before 3-pass mode 
> existed...
Okay... I grant you that... but pass=3 being the intermediate? That has 
the makings of a Monty Python sketch. Why not something like "pass=1.5" 
or "pass=1+"?

- Joe