[MPlayer-users] 2pass encoding... faster first pass?

[Mark Williams (MWP)]

Greetings all,

Most of the time i use mencoder options similar to:

LAVC="vcodec=mpeg4:vqmin=2:vqmax=16:vmax_b_frames=2:vme=4:mbd=2:v4mv:keyint=250:vlelim=-4:vcelim=7:vstrict=0:mbcmp=3:precmp=0:cmp=0:subcmp=0:predia=1:dia=1:trell:aspect=4/3:vbitrate=$BITRATE"

VF="crop=$CROPXY,scale=$SCALEXY,pp=vb/hb/dr,hqdn3d"

Which gives VERY slow encoding, but great quality.

When doing 2pass video encodings can i use faster settings for the first pass,
then the above for the second pass?
Or do i need to use the same settings for each pass?

Thanks!