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Originally Posted by nm
Did you try using the same parameters (except pass=N) for both passes and let x264 lower the settings for you (with older MEncoder versions, you also need turbo=1, but I'd recommend updating instead)? If you already happen to use current MEncoder, subme will get lowered to 2 by default when you have pass=1 in the command line. You need to use parameter slow_firstpass to avoid that.
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Damn, you're right. So where did the extra compression artefacts come from? Maybe from opening the player twice.
I'm really confused. I think I'm going crazy. But that's impossible of course. I already was.