[MPlayer-users] two pass encoding and audio only in 2nd pass?

[Malte Gell]

On Donnerstag, 1. November 2007, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il Thursday 01 November 2007 20:45:52 Malte Gell ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I read somewhere, that when doing a two pass encoding using
> > mencoder in the first pass you can skip audio encoding or use -oac
> > copy and do the audio encoding in the second pass, e.g. -oac
> > mp3lame.
> >
> > Is this true and safe to do?

> it's unsafe: always do the same things in both passes or mencoder
> may choose to drop or duplicate different frames (if necessary)
> in the two different phases

Thank you for clarifying. There was someone who wrote you could safe CPU 
cycles by using -oac copy in pass one and encode to MP3 just in pass 
2..... I'll now take your advise and make it right, though it may take 
longer.

Malte