[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] remove '(pass 1/2)'

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue May 13 10:06:18 CEST 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:41:46PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> 
> Some users were confused about lavcopts marked as '(pass 1/2)' in the
> man page:
> 
> >> 5.  Are all of the options that are noted with (pass 1/2) in the man
> >> disabled if you include them in the second pass? Or can they be
> >> detrimental if you include them on a second pass?
> >
> > Generally it's safest (though slow) if pass 2 uses exactly the same
> > parameters as pass 1. Using different parameters can (depending on the
> > parameters) result in inexact statistics.
> > I'm not sure what (pass 1/2) means - perhaps it's something to do with
> > pass=3 encodings. Pass=3 works differently, perhaps it just doesn't
> > need/use the parameters marked (pass 1/2)? Anybody know?
> 
> I can see why they were confused. I think the '(pass 1/2)' marks should
> just be removed.

Go right ahead.

Diego



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