[MPlayer-users] re-using divx2pass.log with different bitrate?

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:29:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>> Why crash? If the bitrates are very different, it might abort at the
>> beginning, saying "bitrate failed to converge" or something. But a
>> crash  would be a bug, not just a property of the ratecontrol
>> algorithm.
>
> If you use a very low bitrate on the first pass, it will mark more
> frames as dupes.  So, on the second pass, if you use a much higher
> bitrate, your logfile will be a few frames short, and will have
> an 'assert' at the end of encoding due to it.

huh? lavc never drops frames. Dupes may be encoded as n-vops, but they 
still output something, and still get an entry in divx2pass.log

Please show an example where divx2pass.log doesn't have exactly the same 
number of entries as input frames.

--Loren Merritt