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Originally Posted by Starks
I hope those settings are more time-sensible. What's the difference between them?
Also, can I still use a first-pass multiple times?
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Not with the way megui is setup by default. It defaults to deleting the .stats file after the second pass is done. You can set it up to not delete it, though, and then reuse the file for multiple second passes. But be careful, if you change settings too much you can get terrible results (I once used the wrong stats file by accident and the quality was impressively bad).
And if you think that x264 is slow, you should try Quicktime's "h.264" (quotes needed) encoder. It's crappy, implements a small subset of the true power of h.264, and something like 10 times slower than x264.
There are faster h.264 encoders out there, but they are commercial and generally not as high quality as x264. The ones that do rival x264 in quality are just as slow with high quality settings.