[MPlayer-users] Specify distinct logfile for 2-pass MPEG encodes

[Andy Furniss]

James Board wrote:
> I'm using mencoder to do 2-pass mpeg encoding with '-ovc lavc' and the
> mpeg4 codec on Linux.  This generates a divx2pass.log file in the directory where the files are located.
> I'm trying to encode multiple files at the same time on different CPU cores
> and the log files are clobbering each other.  How can I specify which name
> I'd like the log file to have?  The mencoder man page says the -passlogfile can
> be used to specify the logfile for pass 1.  That works.   But how do I tell ffmpeg to use that
> log file in pass 2?  Will the same -passlogfile argument work?

Maybe - why don't you test it? If all else fails I suppose you would 
just need to use separate dirs.