[MEncoder-users] 1st pass encoding log

[Stjepan Brbot]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 09:24 +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009, Stjepan Brbot wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > can one use the same 1st pass encoding log file for different 2nd
> > pass encodings? (xvid encoding)
> >
> > For example I'd like to encode the same movie with bitrate=2000 and
> > bitrate=1000. Can I use 1st pass log file from first encoding
> > (bitrate=2000) for additional only 2nd pass encoding (bitrate=1000)
> > or I have to encode again 1st pass log because I use different
> > bitrates?
> 
> With xvid you can use the same log file. xvid does first pass with a 
> fixed quantizer anyway, so as long as you only change the bitrate, the 
> result should be the same.


Thanks Jan,

now I see the xvid encoder log message during 1st pass encoding:

"xvid: bitrate setting is ignored during first pass"

What about lavc and x264 encoding?