[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.952,1.953

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/5/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Loren Merritt CVS wrote:
> 
> > CVS change done by Loren Merritt CVS
> >
> > Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en
> > In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv29356
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >       mplayer.1
> > Log Message:
> > expose x264 options 'me' and 'me_range'.
> >
> > Index: mplayer.1
> 
> >  In three pass mode, the second pass (pass=3, that is not a typo)
> >  does both: It first reads the stats, then overwrites them.
> > -You might want to backup divx2pass.log before doing this if there is
> > -any possibility that you will have to cancel MEncoder.
> 
> Is there any reason why this sentence was removed? I don't have any
> inherent objections to doing so, but I don't like to see things removed
> without discussion, and I don't recall any mention of removing this
> segment prior to the commit. It certainly doesn't appear, at a glance,
> to be relevant to the rest of the change committed...

x264 now writes the new passfile without overriding the old passfile
(and overrides the old one only when the encore successfully ended).
So you do not need to backup it yourself. :)

Guillaume