[MEncoder-users] 3-pass encoding with x264

[Grozdan]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Olivier Rolland
<billl at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't know much about mewiki, but it's always been like that in
mencoder. And not just for x264, but also for encoding with lavc
codecs (eg, mpeg4, etc)

>
>> 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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