[MPlayer-dev-eng] 3 pass encoding syntax poll
Martin Drab
drab at kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz
Fri Feb 11 18:23:05 CET 2005
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Martin Drab writes:
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Andreu Escudero wrote:
> >
> > > Better:
> > > 1 First pass of multi-pass encoding
> > > 2 ALERT - Only for 2 pass encodings
> > > Second pass of 2 pass encoding
> > > 3 ALERT - For N pass encodings (where N >= 2)
> > > Subsequent passes (2nd and up) of multi-pass encoding
> > > The log file is overwriten (refined) for each pass.
> >
> > Even better and IMHO clearer:
> >
> > 1 First pass (only generate log file)
> > 3 N-th pass (read, refine, and write log file)
> > 2 Last pass (only read log file)
> >
> > This fits to all cases.
>
> Boulderdash. Then 2 would come _after_ 3. How much sense could that
> make? None at all.
The number cannot be swapped without breaking backwards compatibility.
Although I have nothing against that. I just think this expressing is the
one, that makes the stuff most clear. It really is like that, when you
want to do a 3-pass encode, you really have to do pass=1, then pass=3, and
then pass=2 !!
Martin
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