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

[Martin Drab]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> Martin Drab writes:
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Andreu Escudero wrote:
> > 
> > > Better:
> > > 1       First pass of multi-pass encoding
> > > 2       ALERT - Only for 2 pass encodings
> > >          Second pass of 2 pass encoding
> > > 3       ALERT - For N pass encodings (where N >= 2)
> > >          Subsequent passes (2nd and up) of multi-pass encoding
> > >          The log file is overwriten (refined) for each pass.
> > 
> > Even better and IMHO clearer:
> > 
> > 1	First pass (only generate log file)
> > 3	N-th pass (read, refine, and write log file)
> > 2	Last pass (only read log file)
> > 
> > This fits to all cases.
> 
> Boulderdash.  Then 2 would come _after_ 3.  How much sense could that
> make?  None at all.

The number cannot be swapped without breaking backwards compatibility. 
Although I have nothing against that. I just think this expressing is the 
one, that makes the stuff most clear. It really is like that, when you 
want to do a 3-pass encode, you really have to do pass=1, then pass=3, and 
then pass=2 !!

Martin