[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Improve documentation and error reporting for the -pass option

[Víctor Paesa]

Hi,

> --- doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi        (revision 15955)
> +++ doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi        (working copy)
> @@ -443,6 +443,9 @@
>  encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first
>  pass and the video is generated at the exact requested bitrate
>  in the second pass.
> +Statistics are collected into a log file (see also the option
> +-passlogfile) which is written during the first pass, and read during
> +the second pass.
>  On pass 1, you may just deactivate audio and set output to null,
>  examples for Windows and Unix:
>  @example
> @@ -451,7 +454,9 @@
>  @end example

Maybe a bit redundant with previous paragraph.
What about:

 encoding. The statistics of the video are recorded in the first
-pass and the video is generated at the exact requested bitrate
-in the second pass.
+pass into a log file (see also the option -passlogfile),
+and in the second pass that log file is read to generate the video
+at the exact requested bitrate.
 On pass 1, you may just deactivate audio and set output to null,
 examples for Windows and Unix:

Regards,
V?ctor