[MEncoder-users] 3-pass encoding with x264

[Ian Collier]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:33:24PM +0200, you wrote:
> 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 ?

This is a complete speculation, but my guess is that pass=2 and pass=3
are identical except that the latter writes an updated statistics file.
Therefore either is correct but pass=2 for the last pass will save a
tiny amount of effort rewriting the file.

I could be totally wrong.  The truth lies in reading the source code. :-)

imc