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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 05 February 2005 20:15, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Loren Merritt writes:
> > * Always perform N-pass encoding. (It is, after all, identical to 2-pass
> >    if you run only one Nth pass.)
>
> Is there anything at all that speaks against this solution?  Sounds
> completely fool-proof to me..

the actual bitstream encoding could be skipped in all passes except the last
huffyuv does this currently, but mpeg* should do it too

one posibility would be to avoid using numbers, and instead use 
'first'/'mid'/'last' or F/N/L, or we just use 1[,3...],2 and make mencoder 
print a readable error message if the user uses a nonsensical sequence of 
pass values

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-- 
Michael

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