On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 08:04, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:

> *2-pass* gives better image quality. but what is the advantage of *3-pass* ? 
> is it superior to 2-pass. please let me know.

reduces the overhead. in 3-pass encoding, the audio stream gets encoded
only once, and the other 2 passes deal only with the video. in 2-pass
encoding, both streams get encoded twice, which is unnecessary.
re-encoding the audio does not improve quality.

- t.



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