[MEncoder-users] 3-pass encoding with x264

[Olivier Rolland]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

So mewiki is wrong ? Or does mplayer modify the pass number before
sending it to the codec ?

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

I don't care myself, but I have a bug report about that in ogmrip.

>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Olivier
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