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

[Diego Biurrun]

Martin Drab writes:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > Martin Drab writes:
> > > 
> > > 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 !!

Look, I don't know what kind of definition of clarity you have, but
let me assure you that the rest of the world just expects 1, 2 and 3
to come in ascending order.

Perhaps using numbers is not a good idea in the first place and
something like "first", "middle", "last" would be better.

Diego