[MEncoder-users] 3-pass encoding with x264

[Grozdan]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Olivier Rolland
<billl at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In 3-pass encoding, should I use
> pass=1 for the 1st pass, pass=3 for the 2nd pass and pass=3 for the 3rd pass
> or
> pass=1 for the 1st pass, pass=3 for the 2nd pass and pass=2 for the 3rd pass ?
>
> The man page of mplayer says that I should use the former but mewiki
> (http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings#pass) says that I
> should use the later.

pass=1 for 1st pass
pass=3 for any subsequent pass if you're doing 3 or more passes

And why are you wanting to do a 3pass? It's useless and is placebo for 99%

>
> Thanks,
>
> Olivier
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