[MPlayer-users] re-using divx2pass.log with different bitrate?

[RC]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:29:00 -0800 (PST)
Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Why crash? If the bitrates are very different, it might abort at the 
> beginning, saying "bitrate failed to converge" or something. But a
> crash  would be a bug, not just a property of the ratecontrol
> algorithm.

If you use a very low bitrate on the first pass, it will mark more
frames as dupes.  So, on the second pass, if you use a much higher
bitrate, your logfile will be a few frames short, and will have
an 'assert' at the end of encoding due to it.