[MPlayer-users] Why create video in 1st pass?

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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:09:41 +0200
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not too experienced with this but can you tell me why you make a
> copy of the log file. Thanks...

With n-pass encoding (vpass=3), if the encoding is stopped for any
reason before it has completed, it will ruin your divx2pass.log file,
and you'll have to start from vpass=1 again.

If you're just doing vpass=1 and vpass=2, it doesn't really matter.