[MPlayer-users] Why create video in 1st pass?

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

> I generally just use, once I'm satisfied, a command like this:
> $ mencoder <input> -o /dev/null -ovc lavc -oac null -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=<appropriate bitrate>:vpass=1:<all other
> options> && cp divx2pass.log (or whatever the file's called)
> divx2pass.pass1 && mencoder <input> -o <output> -ovc lavc -oac null -
> lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=<appropriate bitrate>:vpass=2:<all
> other options>

I'm not too experienced with this but can you tell me why you make a
copy of the log file. Thanks...