2pass, really necessary in my case?

[fluxcore]

Hey there,

First I'd like to say thanks to the webmaster, this has been the only site which has guides which work properly (even if I did have to tinker to get audio...)

My question(s):
I'm using a celery333@415 processor, so as you can imagine, my encoding time is less than favourable... in the vicinity of 12 hrs per 1 1/2hr movie (2 pass, using gordian knot)
What I want to know is if the second pass is so vital to quality in my case... i.e. is it worth 6 hours of encode?
And if not, how can I do one pass with burnt-in subtitles and mp3, and with reasonable quality (I'm not busting for amazing quality, but good quality would be preferred)?
I'm ripping NG: Evangelion btw, if you would like to know what kind of compression I'm likely to get.

Also, when I create the .d2v from DVD2AVI, the audio stream states "+80ms"... does this mean it'll be slightly out of synch, and if so, can I account for this?

TIA,
flux

[UHT]

it is definetly worth doing 2pass. end. :)

[LotionBoy]

I second that.

LotionBoy

[aleksander]

As UHT and LotionBoy say - do 2nd pass.
About that audio - +80 means that when joining audio and video (best to do is is Nandub) you have to select Audio - Interleaving and in the Delay field write 80. Then your audio will be in perfect sync with the movie. 80ms is not a big deal though, but if you will listen it more carefuly, you will hear it...
aleksander