What could be the results of making a second pass with an incomplete first pass?

[Chainmax]

Question says it all.

[Selur]

probably the usual stuff:
wrong file size, encoder might stop/crash, bad quality

[atreya2011]

wrong file size

He is right on that part. I was doing the first pass and it was 99% over , when windows crashed. So I thought, what the heck, the first pass was almost over anyways (only the credits). So I started the second pass and
the filesize was 650mb (600mb was the target). So I had to do the first pass all over again. I dont remember the exact filesizes but I do remember the fact that it went way off target.

[Chainmax]

I left the first pass running at night on a computer that's not mine. I was told that the first pass was completed, but I don't know it for sure. Oh well, I'll find out what happened in about 2 hours when the second pass finishes.

[sysKin]

The first-passed part of the video will match your requested size, the rest will be encoded at quant 2.

[Chainmax]

Interesting, why is that? BTW, the encode turned out about 6Mbytes short of the mark.