[MEncoder-users] 3-pass encoding with x264

[Kasper Bonne]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 17:41, Ian Collier <Ian.Collier at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.

This is exactly my understanding as well.

/Kasper