[MPlayer-dev-eng] 3 pass encoding syntax poll

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 16:38, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> > 2nd pass ratecontrol, so I used 3 == 1|2.
> > However, I have seen many confused users, so apparently this isn't so 
> > intuitive, and nobody reads the section in the manpage describing its 
> > usage.
> 
> That's really a pity. But I have to admit that unfortunately sometimes
> the very doc does confuse users when it discusses "3-pass encode" which
> sometimes means "1:audio, 2:1st pass video, 3:2nd pass video".

I have to admit I was confused about the docs too, before it struck me that
this was an interative second pass mode.

It would help to put in examples in the docs.

Personally, I think the whole mess about frameno type threepass should
be destroyed with great prejudice.