[MPlayer-dev-eng] 3 pass encoding syntax poll

[Loren Merritt]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Oded Shimon wrote:

> On Friday 11 February 2005 21:26, Loren Merritt wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Oded Shimon wrote:
>>> Also, as I mentioned before, if there's some ideal solution for backing
>>> up the 2pass files, that everyone likes, it would be nice.. Yet another
>>> suggestion - how about Mencoder moves your old 2pass file to
>>> 'old2pass.log' or similar, overwriting any existing, and the rest is done
>>> the same...
>>
>> Then you would have to remember to restore the logfile after cancelling.
>> And if you don't, it not only starts an encode with no chance of
>> finishing, it also overwrites the previous backup.
>
> Yeah, I thought of that flaw as I wrote that e-mail - someone mentioned
> something betters - use a .new file, and when you are done, replace the
> regular one.
> That way, no extra files are produced, you don't have to remember to restore
> backup if you canceled, and it solves the -passlogfile option by just
> appending a '.new' to the filename... I think that's the perfect solution...
> Implementation is kinda a problem though.. The only one that really knows when
> the encode is complete and successful is mencoder.c, and it knows nothing of
> the log file (which is a good thing...).

mencoder calls vf->uninit

--Loren Merritt