[MPlayer-users] mencoder error on 2nd pass with x264

[Alexander Roalter]

RC wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:07:49 -0600 (MDT)
> Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
>> No, it's recommended to change options between passes, except for a
>> few  which have to remain the same. 
> 
> Odd that I don't see the slightest mention of that in the man page.
At least in the documentation (not man-page) 13.3 the 2nd pass is with 
more options than the first, and even in the man page for the first pass 
most time-consuming options are deactivated. Isn't the first pass used 
only to gather the bitrate requirements (of course still for the special 
needings of the used codec etc... )?

Whatever, my method of encoding it to a 5GB file first with maximum 
quality and then back to x264 with the sharper restrictions worked, 
seems like the AVI i got in the first place was not that problem-free 
after all.

cheers,
Alex